Open-Source and Frontier Labs Both Surge, but Opus Remains My Daily Driver

The author acknowledges the rise of open-source models like Kimi and frontier progress from closed labs, supporting both. However, Claude Opus remains their daily driver for its thoughtfulness, capability, and unmatched style and personality, though they wish Anthropic invested more in frontend experience.

• open-source
• Claude Opus
• Kimi K3
• frontier progress