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📣 jcremona

What's the best AI model for system design nowadays?


I'm specifically asking about software system design tasks like:

Designing backend architectures Tradeoff analysis (DB, queues, caching, others) Infra diagrams Documentation

My current pick would be Claude Opus 4.6, because I've found it strong at structured reasoning and long context

But I'm curious what others are using today


  👤 verdverm Accepted Answer ✓
Actual intelligence, no models are capable of such high level design because they cannot handle the intricacies of the details