Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?

ive been seeing a recurring claim that open (weight) models 6 months behind the frontier are good enough for the majority of ‘work’. if you've had a concrete task in the last month where GLM/DeepSeek/Kimi/Qwen failed and Opus/Fable/GPT succeeded (or vice versa!

Source: [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863171)