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I'm finding Luna suprisingly adequate for my work. I slept on it due to the benchmarks, but it's very fast and even on low reasoning I'm finding it more than ad
by andai 3mo ago
I'm finding Luna suprisingly adequate for my work. I slept on it due to the benchmarks, but it's very fast and even on low reasoning I'm finding it more than adequate for "menial" work. (The speed is crucial for "interactive" work -- if a model is fast enough it goes from "async" to "real time", subjectively, which is a huge difference.)
In fact, I'd say it's overqualified for the kind of work I'm doing, because it spends >half the time verifying trivial changes (and the verification isn't as helpful as you'd expect, even with bigger models).
Maybe I can prompt it to be less aggressive about that (the new GPT models do it even without prompting).
Anyway, Ultrafast Luna would be amazing, though I strongly doubt they can offer Cerebras at anything approaching the current prices. Now we wait for Moore's Law? :)
- epolanski 3mo agoI feel odd to use these models, because it feels like a faster model doesn't feel that much faster if it spends reading files, making edits and running checks. It feels too situational.
- andai 3mo agoWhich one of those takes time?
- phoghed 3mo agoLuna has impressive results on DeepSWE. I mostly split work between Luna and Sol. If something seems simple enough I always try it with Luna first.
- shepherdjerred 3mo agoLuna is incredible considering the cost. It’s very good for routine work.
- trollbridge 3mo agoLuna and Terra are great, but so are DeepSeek Flash, MiMo, Qwen 3.6, and even Gemma for some things. MiMo Pro has had UltraSpeed for a while.
- JohnBooty 3mo agoSol medium/high planner orchestrating -> Luna xhigh subagents doing implementation ...has been REALLY good for me. Even on xhigh, Luna is crazy cheap. Subjectively I'd say it's way better than Sonnet at a fraction of the cost. Luna xhigh can do some decently challenging things on its own, but when orchestrated by a model that is actually good like Sol, I am finding it very very nice.
- wrikl 3mo agoHow are you doing orchestration - using sol for plan mode in codex? Or some other pattern/harness?
- JohnBooty 3mo agoThe cool kids have custom harnesses and workflows and stuff, yeah. I'm still using Superpowers in Codex. Planning in Sol, Luna subagents. https://github.com/obra/superpowers https://github.com/obra/superpowers I feel like I could be doing a lot better somehow. Regardless though Luna (xhigh specifically) is super good/cheap/fast for a lot of things what about you
- munksbeer 3mo agoI'm considering a home project done in Rust. I've not even touched Rust before, I'm a Java dev. It'll be something reasonably complicated, using a bit of unsafe etc. Do you know how Luna does writing Rust code?
- fennecfoxy 3mo agoFast models is why I was hoping Taalas would get their butts into gear and eventually release a consumer priced card. I'd love to have a pcie card that screams along at 15k t/s even if on a heavily quantized 2026 level model forever. Faster & cheaper tokens = more reasoning capability and more reasoning = better problem solving as far as I have seen.