Fixes

webview-ui/src/components/settings/OpenRouterModelPicker.tsx

@@ -207,11 +207,17 @@ const OpenRouterModelPicker: React.FC = () => {
 						marginTop: 0,
 						color: "var(--vscode-descriptionForeground)",
 					}}>
-					You can use{" "}
+					The extension automatically fetches the latest list of models available on{" "}
 					<VSCodeLink style={{ display: "inline", fontSize: "inherit" }} href="https://openrouter.ai/models">
-						any model on OpenRouter
-					</VSCodeLink>{" "}
-					with Cline. (Try searching for "free" to see if there are free models currently available.)
+						OpenRouter.
+					</VSCodeLink>
+					If you're unsure which model to choose, Cline works best with{" "}
+					<VSCodeLink
+						style={{ display: "inline", fontSize: "inherit" }}
+						onClick={() => handleModelChange("anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet:beta")}>
+						anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet:beta.
+					</VSCodeLink>
+					You can also try searching for "free" to see if there are any free models currently available.
 				</p>
 			)}
 		</>

webview-ui/src/utils/validate.ts

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ export function validateModelId(
 			case "openrouter":
 				const modelId = apiConfiguration.openRouterModelId
 				if (!modelId) {
-					return "You must provide a model ID. If you're not sure which model to choose, Cline works best with Claude 3.5 Sonnet (anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet)."
+					return "You must provide a model ID."
 				}
 				if (openRouterModels && !Object.keys(openRouterModels).includes(modelId)) {
 					return "The model ID you provided is not available. Please choose a different model."