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Comment by z_rho_one

4 days ago

GPT-5.6 Luna is an insanely powerful model for its price. It's been great for coding workflows where I guide the LLM's hand step by step. It's also insane to see my weekly limit drop by than 2% after an hour of coding ever since the discount.

However, I've noticed 2 drawbacks with Luna. Context rot is much more palpable than Terra and Sol. It tends to get confused and go into rabbit holes when it's context gets filled up. In addition, when instructions are vague, it performs poorly and tends to write way to more code than necessary, but that is to be expected of smaller models. In all, for clearly defined, bite-sized coding tasks, Luna's price-to-performance has been insane. It might have very well commanded the price tag of Sol if it came out just a year ago.

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pimeys  3 days ago

Yes it is cheap, but per task DeepSeek v4 Flash is a bit more expensive and lands between Terra and Gemini 3.6 Flash in quality. Closer to Gemini than Terra...

  • agrippanux  3 days ago

    Fable orchestrating DeepSeek v4 Flash to implement a plan is my new favorite thing.

    It's so freaking fast, but you gotta tell Fable to watch Deepseek like a hawk or it'll go off the rails.

    • pimeys  3 days ago

      Yes. It works very well for simple tasks. When I know the context grows over 200k, I implement with Kimi.

      We run an agent company and we do a bunch of different things with agents. Where we used Gemini before Deepseek v4 Flash is taking the lead on price. It's like 5x cheaper than 3.6 and well 2.5x cheaper than 3.7 "introductory price". Comparable quality.