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		bilater 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive Not sure why author didn't use 4o-mini. 4o for reasoning but things like parsing/summarizing can be done by cheaper models with little loss in quality.

mthoms 10 months ago [–]

> Note: I also tried GPT-4o mini but yielded significantly worse results so I just continued my experiments with GPT-4o.

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