Haiku is Good Enough for Audio Processing
Technical_Set_8431 · reddit · 2026-07-10
While processing audio files in Claude Code, the author accidentally switched the model to Haiku but found it still performed the task perfectly. Claude explained that this type of work mainly involves calling ffmpeg, reading the output, and making simple decisions, meaning the model acts as an orchestrator rather than performing complex audio reasoning.
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