"Setting a challenge to spend the whole of September on only one efficient open model felt like a great idea at the time. Turns out not so much in practice."
This is just such a bad opening statement, almost pure clickbait. It makes it sound like the rest of the article is going to be on how it was a mistake to go with cheap models because their performance isn't good enough etc; the same usual stuff we see when someone tries to replace a frontier model with a cheap/flash model.
But the reality is that GLM 5.3 flash if a fantastic model; very cheap/performant and really a new era for this type of model, and the blog is just about some completely unrelated mistakes in development processes. Give us our time back.
dash-44 · · focus · HN ↗
This is just such a bad opening statement, almost pure clickbait. It makes it sound like the rest of the article is going to be on how it was a mistake to go with cheap models because their performance isn't good enough etc; the same usual stuff we see when someone tries to replace a frontier model with a cheap/flash model.
But the reality is that GLM 5.3 flash if a fantastic model; very cheap/performant and really a new era for this type of model, and the blog is just about some completely unrelated mistakes in development processes. Give us our time back.