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speedping 35 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

I second that. Gemini 3.5 Flash rocks the benchmark charts but is terrible as an agent. Horrible instruction adherence and makes WAY too many tool calls

Der_Einzige 35 days ago | [–]

Gemini 3.1 pro is still better at creative writing than any other model.

luckydata 35 days ago | [–]

which cheap models have you found work best as agents?

verdverm 35 days ago | [–]

Most of the bigger open weight models are pretty good. You can get them per-token from companies like Fireworks or OpenCode

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