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Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?

A Hacker News user asks the community to share specific tasks from the past month where open-weight models like GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi, or Qwen failed but frontier models like Opus, Fable, or GPT succeeded, aiming to test the claim that open models six months behind are sufficient for most work.

read1 min views1 publishedJul 10, 2026

| |||||||||||| 5 points by | ive been seeing a recurring claim that open (weight) models 6 months behind the frontier are good enough for the majority of ‘work’. if you've had a concrete task in the last month where GLM/DeepSeek/Kimi/Qwen failed and Opus/Fable/GPT succeeded (or vice versa!), please share Ill provide a template as ive also frequently seen posters complain about a lack of context: - task (short and specific) - cheap model tried & how it failed - frontier model & did it actually succeed - would frontier-1 have been fine in hindsight? | ||||||||||| |

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