Shreya Shankar Uses Four LLM Subscriptions

Shreya Shankar, identified in the post as a databases and HCI researcher joining CMU CS as assistant professor in Fall 2027, wrote that a year ago she did not expect to function as a human query optimizer across four LLM subscriptions with nontrivial usage. She stated that her decision tree for model selection is surprisingly complicated even within a single domain. The post specifies that for writing she uses Sol for pull requests but Opus 4.6 for editing.