Muse-Glimmer flops in hands-on test: user gives up at 40K tokens, switches to DeepSeek
techmago · reddit · 2026-10-29
A Reddit user reports Muse-Glimmer performed far below its Artificial Analysis ranking: it needed extremely precise instructions, failed to replicate an opencode config across three machines even after 40K tokens (the user handed off to DeepSeek to finish), and produced dry, uncreative text. The thread asks whether others had better experiences.
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