Early user impressions: fast, 'crazy agentic' model shows real curiosity beyond vanilla CoT
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-08
User teortaxesTex shares early impressions of an unnamed new model (benchmarked against GLM 5.3-Flash in their mind):
- Fast, with a refreshing attitude
- Notably agentic: rather than offering a mediocre CoT for prompts like "what do you think about this shader," it displays genuine curiosity
- The author suggests it might be good enough to serve as a sidekick/research assistant to their agent Astra
A follow-up clarifies it did not find errors in Astra's work — the appeal is more about its behavioral style and initiative.
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