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embedding-shapetoday at 1:54 PM3 repliesview on HN

Huh, 1.6B/2B/4B models, I guess they weren't joking when they said "not as powerful as ChatGPT or Claude Code". Also unsure why they said "Claude Code", it's not an CLI agent AFAIK?


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dr_kiszonkatoday at 3:08 PM

I so wanted to love Liquid AI's models, but despite their speed I was never able to get anything useful out of them. Even their larger models can't be trusted with simple stuff like inserting a column into a markdown table. The advertised tool calling is also not great. What I found interesting was that the ones I tried were a little light on guardrails.

I would really like to know what people use these small and tiny models for. If any high-karma users are reading it, would you consider posting Ask HN?

dgb23today at 2:22 PM

This seems to be a general chat app, but otherwise small models can be very effective within the right use cases and orchestration.

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Mashimotoday at 2:34 PM

> Also unsure why they said "Claude Code", it's not an CLI agent AFAIK?

Claude Code is a Desktop app as well.

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