That's a good salary, better than Romania on average. And if you also have lower prices (at least that's what I heard), even better then.

I'm also unemployed. So far the models that I've used the most are Kimi and GLM. I haven't done that much agentic coding though, I've mostly used them for studying math and general conversations and I'm generally happy with their performance.

There's DeepInfra. There's also OpenRouter where you can find several providers.

I thought it was determined (slight pun) that free will is not a thing. I'm referring to Sapolsky's book "Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will)" as an example.

In case you don't know, Gemini 2.5 flash is hosted on DeepInfra. They also have 1.5 flash but not 2.0 flash.

I have no affiliation with DeepInfra. I use them, because they host open-source models that are good.

Thanks. Yeah, for now we're moving to 3.1 flash lite as that's the new cheapest at $.25/1M and is also still "good enough". 2.5 flash is more expensive at $.30/1M (looks like Deep Infra charges the same as GCP/VertexAI for it). I might check them out for Gemma though. We benchmarked Gemma2 when that came out and it wasn't remotely usable for us largely because the context window was way too small. It looks like 3 or 4 might be worth evaluating though.

Xiaomi's mimo-v2-flash is great if you care about speed and performance - it's 1/10 the price of Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and faster (on OpenRouter).

GCP does server other non-Google models, but I'm not sure what they have other than Anthropic models. I don't think Haiku is a great model though.

I use ChatGPT and Claude on OpenRouter, because it's just easier than buying credits on each platform separately.

by keeping the how part a secret

I wonder, how does a Julius perceive another Julius, as another competent worker? What about a non-Julius then?

I've seen it rationalized by saying you should be moving jobs every year or so, because if you're not doing that, then you're not growing. I've always thought of this as a sort of Julius coping mechanism. On some level, I think a Julius views a non-Julius as a stagnant old gray beard who rejects the "growth mindset".

To be clear: I've never seen people who follow this strategy contribute anything of value, and it's the biggest red flag on a resume. You learn and grow more by seeing things through.

* It's cheaper than proprietary models

* Maybe you don't want to have your conversations used for training. The providers listed on OpenRouter mention whether they do that or not.

I had started using it again through Open WebUI. If it's gone, I'll probably switch to GLM-4.7 completely.