first time using oai models for coding. it's so refreshing to ask it simple questions and for it to reply immediately rather than using 300 tool calls and taking 30 minutes
it's definitely faster per token but the main thing is it doesn't try and deep research literally everything. I can ask fable what the current git branch is and it will take like 10 minutes
Sol medium and up has some of that, too. But it feels to me like it's sort of bored by most "normal" coding work. (But yeah, both the agent harness as well as the models are much more fun to work with than Anthropic's right now!)
i used a local tiny qwen model (~2gb?; i've got 4gb vram lol) today for a few simple questions and yknow what? quick, straightforward. no frills.
going to keep trying it for the small questions, see where it struggles vs is fine