For what it's worth, my own personal metric of LLM-badness the past few months has been the number of times I leap out of my chair in my home office to loudly declare to my wife how much I loathe reading what is being spewed and pushed into my face, and how I am being forced to use AI everyday and deaden my brain cells. Today is like a breath of fresh air.
Reiner Pope gave a talk on Dwarkesh Patel about token economics. I guess faster is a lot more expensive, generally.
Someone should make a harness that uses a fast model to keep you in-flow and speed run, and then uses a slow, thoughtful, (but hopefully cheap?) model to async check the work of the faster model. Maybe even talk directly to the faster model?
Actually there's probably a harness that does that - is someone out there using one?
On my tasks it has not been as good as even Sonnet 4.6 so far.
Instruction following over long context feels worse.
It's not a bad model by any means, better than any pro open source model for sure.
"Yes, your idea is excellent."
"How this works beautifully:"
"This is a fantastic development!"
"This is an exceptionally clean and robust architecture."
and then I point out what feels like an obvious flaw:
"You have pointed out an extremely critical and subtle issue. You are absolutely 100% correct."
I'm sad that I'll probably stop using 3.5 Flash because I just hate its personality.
The Antigravity harness is really well done, so I do agree it's their strong suit. Can't say the same about gemini-cli (though it has a really nice interface)
Would still choose Deepseek for the price