What's the point of using it without reasoning? Isn't that what Luna's for?

It's neat that we can now compare the Terra without reasoning pelican (cost 0.64 cents) with the equivalently priced Luna with reasoning pelicans (Luna xhigh is 0.40 cents, Luna max is 0.91 cents). I think the Terra low one compares favorably to those, though I'd suggest also comparing them on tasks more representative of real work than generating pelican SVGs!

Terra without reasoning is almost certainly going to be faster than Luna on High (which is roughly equivalent in intelligence according to AA).

a bigger model still has more built-in knowledge to draw from, even without reasoning.

Maybe it's doing a really good job, but the original code was just held together with scotch tape.

They changed this from earlier today... It's still very confusing.

one day they might realize the importance of reading llm output... maybe?

No one else does so why would they

lots of people are staying human-in-the-loop

Anthropic is among the worst, their linux kernel hack is a prime example, didn't even count the "CVEs" to see Mythos can't count either

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q

OpenAI just as bad with hugging face/wikipedia

I find OAI much worse on the negligence side, especially with the Tumbler Ridge school shooting

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mother-jones...

ANT annoys me more with their ai psychosis on steroids

That’s fair

I've been experimenting with AI video generation beyond raw video gen for some time now. Opus 4.5 was the first tool I tried last year, and it was okay...

Fast forward a few months, and Opus 5.5 is now running my entire video production pipeline. This model is leaps and bounds ahead of the previous model.

I can generate a complete 5-minute explainer video on my MacBook Air M4 in about five minutes from a single prompt, using the Gemini TTS API and MiniMax H3 Max for b-roll. It creates thumbnails and titles, handles the entire process, and automatically uploads the result via the YouTube API—all powered by a Claude Code plugin. (youtube.com/@ctrlaltexplain for those interested).

I guess we should be thankful that OpenAI is so open about this kind of stuff...