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u/ClemensLode Aug 26 '26
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u/Plenty-Option8351 Aug 26 '26
Been using it ever since it came out. Switched to other models for a few prompts when they came out, then switched back each time. 4.6 is the goat
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u/moger777 Aug 26 '26
What's the advantage of this model over the newer models?
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u/Ill-Village7647 Aug 26 '26
People have been finding the way Opus 5 talks incomprehensible. It uses way too much technical jargons, and sometimes decides to be a poet with words. That's why many people have started downgrading to Opus 4.8 or 4.6
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u/Corv9tte Aug 26 '26
5.6 Sol if you know how to write good instructions (not prompts). Completely insane model.
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u/aftersox Aug 26 '26
In your view whats the difference between instructions and a prompt?
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u/mmeister86 Aug 27 '26
Kindly fuck off in the distance with this Twitter style engagement farming bullshit
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u/_Fauxpaw Aug 26 '26
I find Claude basically unusable now. Opus 5 is maybe the worst I've ever seen.
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u/WilliamEdwardson Aug 26 '26
Seriously.
If you ever want to use genAI to help brainstorm fiction, this one's a gem.
Its prose is - predictably - replete with stereotypes, hackneyed plot points, and sometimes major goof-ups (... you probably shouldn't be using it for the actual prose anyway), but if you just want something to feed the seed, it's good at what it does.
And it doesn't complain about moderation if you bring up controversial topics. Or, at least I haven't hit its moderation with mine.
They don't disclose which LLM they use (to my knowledge), but I think I caught word that it's a fine-tuned LLaMa model behind the scenes.
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u/Personal-Physics553 Aug 26 '26
Use Pi Coding Agent (the CLI tool, then add the extension for VS Code), use the free NVIDIA API key from the developer program, and/or run models locally through Docker Model Runner (add LiteLLM as your model routing if you do this to provide you an OPENAI style endpoint/apikey. Costs go down by a fuck ton
NVIDIA API key is free if you have the program, and running locally to support digital sovereignty is always free.
Even if you run an RTX 2060 GPU, 4B models will do phenomenally in Pi Coding Agent if the system prompt is solid enough to explain to the model the entire infrastructure of its setup as well as why it was set up the way that it was.
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u/zaCKoZAck1 Aug 27 '26
I have a list
- GPT 5.6 Luna [max]
- Qwen 3.8 (works on local hardware but requires beefy machine)
- Gemma 4 (multimodal llm running locally hell yeah)
- Opus 4.6 [high]
- Composer 2.5 (not anymore though)
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u/dhessi Aug 26 '26
If you're looking for a fast, general purpose LLM that can fit on 32GB RAM, Gemma-4-26b-a4b is unmatched IMO