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swiftcodertoday at 11:01 AM4 repliesview on HN

Anyone tried using this as a sub-agent for a more capable model like Claude/Codex?


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LatencyKillstoday at 11:12 AM

The combined (input/output) context window length is 4K. Claude would blow through that even when trying to read and summarize a small file.

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coredog64today at 4:20 PM

I was thinking about the other way: Could you use this in front of Claude to summarize inputs and so reduce your token counts?

khalictoday at 12:17 PM

If you’re looking into small models for tiny local tasks, you should try Qwen coder 0,5B. It’s more of an experiment, but it can output decent functions given the right context instructions.

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franzetoday at 11:16 AM

project started with

trying to run openclaw with it in ultra token saving mode, did totally not work.

great for shell scripts though (my major use case now)