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Open-source coding models are getting really good — and dev can be almost free now

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TL;DR: my current workflow is basically: good/expensive model plans + reviews, cheap/open models build . And I'm increasingly convinced that, with a good enough spec, the builder model matters a lot less than it used to. For my latest project I used Fable 5.1 to create a `spec.json`, following roug…

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  1. 2026-09-12 02:35 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Open-source coding models are getting really good — and dev can be almost free now

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