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		nico 54 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade ha... What do you recommend for coding with aider or roo? Sometimes it’s hard to find models that can effectively use tools

cchance 54 days ago [–]

I havent found one good locally, i use DeepSeek r1 0528 its slow but free and really good at coding (openrouter has it free currently)

nico 54 days ago | [–]

Oh wow, just checked this leaderboard, r1 0528 looks really good

https://leaderboard.techfren.net/

Thanks for the recommendation, will try it out

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