> He's a non-technical founder building an AI-powered business.

It sounds like he's building some kind of ai support chat bot.

I despise these things.

I'd second this wholeheartedly

Since building a custom agent setup to replace copilot, adopting/adjusting Claude Code prompts, and giving it basic tools, gemini-3-flash is my go-to model unless I know it's a big and involved task. The model is really good at 1/10 the cost of pro, super fast by comparison, and some basic a/b testing shows little to no difference in output on the majority of tasks I used

Cut all my subs, spend less money, don't get rate limited