Yeah at the point that Opus has read enough context to hand off a detailed plan, implementing the plan may not be that many more tokens.
Also having spent the weekend with the supposedly great Deepseek Flash 4.1 1017, I wonder if the people singing its praises have used recent frontier models. DS Flash feels like maybe Sonnet 4.5-4.6. Absolutely falls apart at things Opus/Sol currently excel at with low reasoning, and even has basic problems with failing tool calls, which hasnt been an issue with Anthropic/OpenAI in forever.
Could be a configuration issue with the provider I tried but honestly, I didnt get much better out of GLM5.3-flash. GLM5.3 and Kimi3 are much better but since most inference providers cant take a loss they are more expensive than just using Opus/Sol on subs, which are almost certainly currently a loss leader for their respective API offeringss.
Also having spent the weekend with the supposedly great Deepseek Flash 4.1 1017, I wonder if the people singing its praises have used recent frontier models. DS Flash feels like maybe Sonnet 4.5-4.6. Absolutely falls apart at things Opus/Sol currently excel at with low reasoning, and even has basic problems with failing tool calls, which hasnt been an issue with Anthropic/OpenAI in forever.
Could be a configuration issue with the provider I tried but honestly, I didnt get much better out of GLM5.3-flash. GLM5.3 and Kimi3 are much better but since most inference providers cant take a loss they are more expensive than just using Opus/Sol on subs, which are almost certainly currently a loss leader for their respective API offeringss.