I've been out the doom/coom cycle for about a year now since I started feeding the corporate machine for tokens
Anyway, how's progress? Last I checked, Deepseek R1 had just come out and revolutionised the paypig game with it's efficiency-to-decent-roleplay ratio. Struggled with coom, generally, liked to rush through it and wasn't willing to be giga-dirty, but certainly an acceptable coom and it wrote alright. With it's cost, you could get easily 100-200 message context without hurting your wallet.

How have we gotten on since? Are newer Deepseeks better? How's the new 3.7 Sonnet or whatever? How good are things now?