opinion
The Raccoon and the Platypus Argue About Cheap Intelligence
Schnapps and Perry face off over Qwen 3.6-Plus matching Opus on SWE-bench at 1/50th the price — what benchmark parity really means, where task routing breaks down, and whether trust can survive a commodity price war.
opinion
The Fifty-X Gap
Claude Code supports $0.29 Qwen 3.6-Plus alongside $15 Opus 4.5. Step-by-step setup for Qwen via API, Gemma 4 locally via Ollama, and a hybrid routing workflow that cuts your bill 60-80%.