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Flash models are nowhere near Pro models in daily use. Much higher hallucinations, and easy to get into a death sprawl of failed tool uses and never come out Y
by karmasimida 8mo ago
Flash models are nowhere near Pro models in daily use. Much higher hallucinations, and easy to get into a death sprawl of failed tool uses and never come out
You should always take those claim that smaller models are as capable as larger models with a grain of salt.
- justinhj 8mo agoFlash model n is generally a slightly better Pro model (n-1), in other words you get to use the previously premium model as a cheaper/faster version. That has value.
- karmasimida 8mo agoThey do have value, because they are much much cheaper. But no, 3.0 flash is not as good as 2.5 pro, I use both of them extensively, especially in translation. 3.0 flash will confidently mistranslate some certain things, while 2.5 pro will not.
- justinhj 8mo agoTotally fair. Translation is one of those specific domains where model size correlates directly with quality, and no amount of architectural efficiency can fully replace parameter count.