Unpopular opinion: Claude Opus 4.6 is NOT the "best coding LLM" (And neither is GPT-5, Gemini 3 Pro, or anything else) The entire "what's the best model?" debate is broken. Because the real answer is: ALL OF THEM. ↳ Gemini 3 Flash for boilerplate (96% cheaper than Opus) ↳ Claude Sonnet 4.5 for daily coding (balanced + fast) ↳ Opus 4.6 for production bugs (SWE-bench king) ↳ GPT-5.3-Codex for CI bots (Terminal-Bench beast) ↳ DeepSeek V3 when budget matters (insane $/quality ratio) Opus 4.6 just dropped 2 days ago with massive terminal-agent improvements. But if you use it for EVERYTHING, you're burning 20x what you should. I spent sometime analyzing SWE-bench Verified, Terminal-Bench 2.0, pricing, and speed across every major model. The result? A routing strategy that saves you 75% on costs while IMPROVING output quality. Full guide with decision tree + charts: linkedin.com/pulse/which-llm-s...… Stop asking "which is best?" Start asking "which is best for THIS task?" #TechLeadership #AIEngineering #ClaudeOpus #LLMs #DevTools