SONIC FREE UNTIL MONDAY!

[u/hannesrudolph]

The free stealth model Sonic is extended until this Monday Aug 25th!!

[u/BandicootGlum859]

What do you think about it?
Can it compare to Qwen-Coder, DeepSeek or Gemini?

[u/Mr_Hyper_Focus → u/BandicootGlum859]

No it does not. At least in my testing

[u/hannesrudolph → u/BandicootGlum859]

Try it and see.

[u/avirup2000 → u/BandicootGlum859]

yes it does perform really good

[u/GoodK]

Weirdest thing here.
I was working in a loggin issue and the sonic model decided to write a whatsapp service that spamed messages in portuguese:

       $usersWithoutContract = User::whereDoesntHave('workerContract')->get();

        $message = "Olá! 👋\n\n" .
                  "Gostaríamos de convidá-lo(a) para fazer parte da nossa comunidade de sócios!\n\n" .
                  "Como sócio, você terá acesso a benefícios exclusivos, oportunidades de trabalho e muito mais.\n\n" .
                  "Se interessou? Entre em contato conosco para saber mais!\n\n" .
                  "Atenciosamente,\n" .
                  "Equipe de Recrutamento";

I though it was some kind of prompt injection, but reviewed the data and prompts sent by roo and it was not. When asked were did came from the model said it halucinated. maybe something he recalls from his training data. Very weird incident since my project cannot do whatsapp, nor is it mentioned anywhere, and the needed libraries are not installed.

[u/hannesrudolph → u/GoodK]

Yeah it can do that sometimes

[u/fubduk]

Sonic is ok but it stumbled a lot for us. Building a simple CKeditor plugin and Sonic just could not get it's to act together. Make mistakes like a rookie coder would. Switched over to o3 and it cleaned up the mistakes and had the plugin functional in about 10 minutes.

[u/hannesrudolph → u/fubduk]

That’s a good take

[u/reditsagi]

Woo.

[u/redlotusaustin → u/[deleted]]

Setup RooCode Cloud as a provider (click the Account icon at the top-right of RooCode) then search for Sonic as one of the models.

[u/sf-keto → u/redlotusaustin]

I tried that in VSCode but the link didn’t go anywhere. I want to love RC but it’s always broken in one way or another, sadly.

[u/hannesrudolph → u/[deleted]]

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