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Comment by speedping

5 hours ago

I second that. Gemini 3.5 Flash rocks the benchmark charts but is terrible as an agent. Horrible instruction adherence and makes WAY too many tool calls

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luckydata  5 hours ago

which cheap models have you found work best as agents?

  • verdverm  3 hours ago

    Most of the bigger open weight models are pretty good. You can get them per-token from companies like Fireworks or OpenCode

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