alt Hacker NewsThe 4-tier naming is honestly as clear as you can get. I have no idea what people are so confused about.
Terra and Luna are dirt cheap and good enough for 50% (or more) of the typical junior dev's workload, and great for routine work. Sol and Astra have so much written about them at this point that it should be obvious what those are good at. The large/gigantic models for things that need full intelligence and slightly more branching thinking.
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> The 4-tier naming is honestly as clear as you can get. I have no idea what people are so confused about.
I wouldn't necessarily say that. Atmospheric mass may be obvious to us, but I suspect it's not nearly as universal knowledge as one may assume.
And I actually assumed at first that they were based on distance from us (terra < luna < sol), so I kept confusing terra and luna.
The obnoxious/confusing thing is that models are released individually rather than as a family.
Luna < Terra < Sol < Astra, fine. But does Terra 6.1 beat Sol 6? Does Fable 5.1 beat Opus 5.5? If I build something around this Terra 6.1 release, then when Luna 6.2 is released in a month, should I swap?