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by inhumantsar 54 days ago
have you tried their flash model? pro was too slow for me too but I've found flash to be more than capable and it's faster than Gpt-5.5 at medium.
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Actually on my list this week to take a look at putting an intelligence escalation flow MVP together (initial assumption would be that flash is good for 60-80% of my user's workflows, with only the tricky questions needing a more capable model. Whether I can put together a proper detection system is yet to be seen).
biggest issue I've had with flash is that it seems to hit a sort of "dumb o'clock" wall. right around the time Beijing would be going to work, response quality takes a dump on instruction-heavy tasks when context grows beyond ~120k tokens.

responses are still usable, no hallucinations or anything, but it's worth keeping in mind if you rely on detailed instructions or large context windows.