typpo
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
> To me that means “it’s an inferior product but marketing dictates we try and hide that.”
I interpret this to mean you're about to get today's mainline performance at a fraction of the price.
My anecdotal experience is GPT 5.2 Pro is decently ahead of Claude Opus 4.5 in this category when it gets to the tricky stuff, both in presentation and accuracy. The long reasoning seems to help a lot. But, apparently the benchmarks do not agree.
Edit - noticed OpenAI specifically focuses on finance use cases in their gpt-5.3-codex blog as well https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/
Having run many red teams recently as I build out promptfoo's red teaming featureset [0], I've noticed the Llama models punch above their weight in terms of accuracy when it comes to safety. People hate excessive guardrails and Llama seems to thread the needle.
Very bullish on open source.
prompts:
- 'Answer this coding problem in Python: {{ask}}'
providers:
- ollama:chat:gemma2:9b
- ollama:chat:llama3:8b
tests:
- vars:
ask: function to find the nth fibonacci number
- vars:
ask: calculate pi to the nth digit
- # ...
One small thing I've always appreciated about Gemma is that it doesn't include a "Sure, I can help you" preamble. It just gets right into the code, and follows it with an explanation. The training seems to emphasize response structure and ease of comprehension.Also, best to run evals that don't rely on rote memorization of public code... so please substitute with your personal tests :)
email: hn at ianww.com