alt Hacker NewsDuring this period however they’ve released models which lots of people report to be significantly more chatty. Framing it purely as a promotion ending feels like you’re giving them a bit too much credit. I doubt it’s a coincidence they started this promotion a week before the release of 4.8.
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Lerc • today at 6:12 PM
I found the waffle reduced my overall usage. It doesn't matter much if it's smarter if it also needs more babysitting. It's quite good at making something quite advanced that is tangentially related to what you actually wanted.
As soon as it gets annoying enough to switch to another provider your Claude code tokens drop right off.
htrp • today at 6:09 PM
The model has a new improved tokenizer that also counts the same outputs as 20% more tokens
I think running a model unsupervised in anything above medium is a sucker move to burn more tokens. The high effort models can be great in limited context, but unsupervised they too often end up navel gazing. High doesn't always mean smarter, but it always burns more tokens. Medium and low seem to be decent for day to day tasks.