Still on a z.ai legacy plan and their 50% discount for switching to standard plans tips the balance for me. So I guess I’ll reevaluate round about beginning 2028…

In the name of science we crafted an autonomous AI agent that builds games on a loop. It is based on GLM 5.2.

I am not sure where this is going to lead us but it is fun to watch.

there is no comparison between glm 5.2 and opus. First for this glm 5.2 you need a big big resource and that big also came from money so instead you buy the opus subscription and enjoy.

this comparison seems kind of pointless if one model has vision and the other doesn't. obviously a model that can see is going to beat a blind model at making a video game.

i think inference is the thing, that also fast inference, so enterprises can just host their own and run, ig vercel do it, many more would. but zs it thinks toooo much idk how fast we can make it.

Just that their Coding Plan is too hard to get. I've been trying to grab it for a week and still can't get it

Would have run it with GLM on max/xhigh effort. Just for fun.

While this is interesting, one single sample with different coding harness is not very scientific.

glm-5.2 is very good if you have a good harness and workflow to use it with. in fact, i'd call it good enough if you are a software engineer who knows what you want. it writes the code. i'm wondering if i need anthropic's models at all at this point, or openai. and surely in a year we won't need them at all. Opus 4.5+ was the turning point for me, and now these open models are just as good. i don't get how you IPO these companies when their only winning product is coding agents and the competition is just as good for 1/4 the price.

not apples to apples. comparing official vs. pi.dev+openrouter and having slow times is more a openrouter issue. try comparing using official z.ai.