Discussion on User Impressions of K3
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-07-17
The author is asking the community about their actual experiences with k3.
They added that after recently evaluating numerous LLMs for a highly expensive task, they are increasingly convinced by the notion that "open-weight models have already saturated benchmark tests." In contrast, Sonnet 5 performs significantly better on such tasks than cheaper public models, though the author remains open to the possibility that "this time might be different."
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