alt Hacker NewsIt passed my threshold for not caring to try new models back with DS4, I use it for literally everything. Announcements of new models in the series always feel curious, because it doesn't really feel like there's much left to fix that would improve on what's already there for any task I know of.
It's a bit like obsessing over patch releases of some software after a major upgrade already solved the original problem long ago.
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Yeah, but for some reason people think they need SOTA to help them work on their side/indie projects.
Like if we needed PhD intelligence for productivity tools and SaaS platforms, why weren't we hiring PhDs to build things before.
99.99% of people do not need SOTA ai.
Speed and price. You should try the 4.1 Flash on one of the fast providers. It's pretty crazy how fast this model works, and it's great for iterative software development because you can steer it fast to where you want to go.
Same. I'm just happy sticking with them and am consistently impressed. Cost is so good and kind of keeps you honest.
definitely could use less thinking time and lower token usage, which is what this bump is focused on
> improve on what's already there for any task I know of
What about "good governance"?
Does it have zero hallucinations? Does it reflect thoroughly on every single idea it uses, verifying its solidity?
I have quite the opposite experience: I can do any concrete coding change with any model, but the intelligence limit just doesn't go through more complex debugging examples.
And then when I try a smart model, like Astra medium and it solves it (I had a firmware bug in my new laptop where I couldn't charge through USB-C) on the first try (altough with a repo already having lots of information about the hardware/firmware/debugging programs/traces), I realize how much time I'm losing on the few examples that the less intelligent models are just not able to debug and solve.