Chris Raroque

You can choose between agent mode and plan mode and cursor.

Plan mode just means that it's going to actually plan out its steps and thinking and you'll approve it.

And here's the hot take I'm going to have here.

I am using GPT 5.1 high for plan mode.

And typically, I'm seeing people using Sonnet or they're using even GPT-5 Codex.

But for some weird reason, and this is a tip I got from a developer friend of mine, he was like, you need to try GPT-5.1 High with planning.

It's just for some reason so good.

My hypothesis is that it was not...

technically built for coding, but it's really good for writing.

When you're doing planning and doing a lot of critical thinking and you're trying to plan out steps, maybe a writing model is actually better than a coding model at doing that.

Then for the execution, when I'm done planning, I do use Sonnet 4.7, I think.

So I use the Sonnet model to actually execute.

So that's the configuration that I have running right now.

I use cursor plan mode.

That's the important one.

It has to be plan mode with GPT 5.1 high, Sonnet for the execution.

And then if it can't get it, I use Claude 4.1 Opus, which again, I don't have much of that.

So I try not to do it.

And then I just switch between Claude Code, Sonnet 4.7, so not Opus Model, and then Cursor, Plan Mode.

I just switch between them depending on the task.