"Small models" nowadays work like someone who has IQ 100+ while SOTA ones are like 150, "relatively".

Given sheer number of turns I can make with small models, I can do a lotta stufff

- cheaper, and faster

Harness makes differences: There have been many HN posts about how one made tiny models work better at certain tasks using harnesses.

These "small" models with right context, and guidance, they work wonders.

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I've been saying Luna has been my go-to AI in previous comments and why Luna is still more compelling than GLM-5.3-flash.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450353#49452248