I strongly recommend trying this for programming tasks.
It is strong (not Fable strong though) with a much better “persona” than Opus, and very different blindspots. If you flip between Claude and this you will find both catch the mistakes of the other before they get out of control.
On balance I actually prefer DeepSeek for programming now, because of the way it talks.
This also reflects my experience and should put to bed the distillation rumours. This model feels nothing like the Claude models, including tone and blindspots.
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