Developer finds small models sufficient for 66% of tasks previously handled by large models
intellectronica · x · 2026-08-25
A developer shares a shift in workflow, attempting to replace tasks usually handled by large models like Sol or Grok with smaller ones like Luna, DeepSeek Flash, Gemini Flash, or Qwen 27B. The observation is that in roughly two-thirds of cases, the results from these smaller models are good enough.
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