Retrospectiva #9

This month's Retrospectiva comes a little later than usual. The whole house got sick battling the flu the past couple weeks. Mixed with a small heatwave here in Copenhagen, means summer hasn't blessed us like we expected. At least not yet. Now that I'm feeling a bit better, I finally managed to get some writing in. Let's get to it. Using GLM-5.2: Finally. An open-weights model that competes with the big frontier models. For the past weeks I've been using GLM-5.2 extensively. Through OpenCode Go it starts at 5 USD/month. It's different than using your GPT 5.5 or Fable, but it feels good in the open-source way. I urge you to take it for a spin. It costs about one-fourth of what Fable costs. And it deals with 99% of issues Fable does. GLM-5.2 catching up - Artificial Analysis Pi Stats: You probably know by now that I'm a big fan of the Pi harness. If you like Claude Code better, that's fine - enjoy yourself. One issue with Pi is that it's hard to know exactly how much you're spending. I…