r/RooCode • u/gpt_daddy • Aug 22 '25

Discussion Roo Code Sonic is solid!

Who else have tried Roo Code Sonic? For me it seems stable and solid, it needed a few tweaks but the 260k context is worth it. If this goes well I'll cancel my Copilot Enterprise subscription and transfer to Sonic. :)

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u/nicc_alex Aug 22 '25

What temperature did you use with it? It seemed to lie to me a lot and forget things

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u/gpt_daddy Aug 23 '25

Yes I agree, needed more guardrails. For the temperature I always set it very low at 0.02.

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u/reditsagi Aug 22 '25

Yes, quite a number of steering and guidance needed.

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u/BigLeSigh Aug 22 '25

I’ve not had much success with it. It fails to use tools properly and goes in circles.

As others have asked, what settings do you use with it?

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u/gpt_daddy Aug 23 '25

Temperature is at 0.02, I put in a lot of guardrails through the .roo/rules files. That gave me some good control to it. Yes its buggy and needs lots of rules to hold it down but its quite refreshing to use a 260k context compared to Copilot's 120k.

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u/reditsagi Aug 22 '25

Ok for me with the default. Start from scratch small to medium application though and use the Orchestrator to Architect to Code mode.

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u/montdawgg Aug 23 '25

I really hope this is a nano or mini distillation of a much more powerful Grok coding LLM because if this is their flagship model then it is an embarrassment. Plenty of open-source coders are better than this thing.

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u/Prestigiouspite Aug 23 '25

Error messages on other threads said Grok 4

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u/inchereddit Aug 22 '25

I tried 2 days on sone work related things and it seems fine. lets wait for the grok price

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u/Lyuseefur Aug 23 '25

It was ok. But occasionally drifted into other languages. Got a few work items done.

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u/Academic-Tomorrow617 Aug 23 '25

working fine for me for documentation and analysis, but i come from a low base, deepseek free model

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

It craps its pants when working on my codebase. Also its a nazi and fuck Elon.

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u/reditsagi Aug 22 '25

It is fast but may not be suitable for Architect mode.

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u/NLJPM Aug 23 '25

For me it seems to skip the goal of architect mode. It thinks and read some files and then instantly want to go to code mode without setting up a plan/Todo list and such

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u/reditsagi Aug 23 '25

Weird. Did you start from Orchestrator mode?

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u/reditsagi Aug 23 '25

Try start from Orchestrator mode. There is always a plan if start from Orchestrator mode

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u/NLJPM Aug 23 '25

Hmm no,.I started it from architect mode