Speed vs smarts for coding agents?

By Ben Halpern on Mar 26, 2026. Originally published on DEV.to.
Speed vs smarts for coding agents?

I'm curious if you specifically have a sense of where you draw the line in terms of your interest in AI assistants in your editor and/or CLI that work fast, or are maximally smart.

It's hard to pass up the smartest model, but speed has to matter too.

Can you articulate this?