Sergei Zotov

I've been vibe coding for a few months as a non-coder and I'm still annoyed with the fact that I can't understand what's happening under the hood.

I've got a decent understanding of code but I can't actually write it and I don't know the best practices for stuff like architecture and security which apparently aren't baked into most vibe coding tools. So my question is...

Yesterday, Meta announced that they have released a new collection of AI models, Llama 4, in its Llama family.

(It consists of Llama 4 Scout, Llama 4 Maverick, and Llama 4 Behemoth.)

Historically, Open AI with its ChatGPT has been on the market for the longest period.

There's a lot of options for models these days. I've been using Claude 3.7 but I'm curious what's been working well for others. What model are you using and why?

Is the thinking version of @Claude by Anthropic worth the extra credit spend? Does @DeepSeek work well enough to save some credits? Is it worth trying any of the @ChatGPT by OpenAI models?