Comment by dichiara19

I want to talk about my experience with Argon, noting that I used it via OpenRouter on a Raspberry Pi, spending around $15 in credit.

My experience is that Google is aiming to create a generalist model – but a truly generalist one! In fact, I find it particularly accurate in general terms and even in long conversations, maintaining excellent consistency and a wealth of information in response to complex questions.

I’ve tested it both as a coding agent – though, precisely because of what I mentioned above about its ‘generalism’, I don’t think it measures up to Fable 5.1 or Astra – and I’ve really appreciated its qualities when supervising my agents’ activities. It was able to keep track of them, suggest alternatives, and monitor the entire lengthy process in parallel without ever straying too far from the request or losing the thread – as often happens with Claude and OpenAI (you only need to test it in Claude Code itself, in both Ultracode and the agent team mode – albeit experimental – to realise how, once the task gets underway, both of them lose their way).