IEEE Spectrum - AI
· Generative Media
China’s Low-Priced Z.ai Model Is Exposing Costly Coder Habits
Zain Hasan, an AI engineer at Together AI, has taught himself to use AI coding assistants while still keeping an eye on cost. He directs difficult problems to a frontier model, meaning one near the current state of the art in reasoning and capability, such as Anthropic’s Fable. But if the task that Hasan is outsourcing