And here we are on HN discussing it.

Discussion is fine, let's just try actually linking back to the source.

Screenshotted this thread; will repost on Reddit and 9gag for the updoodles.

I think what's most interesting is not that this works well for common languages, but it seems to be useful for languages that don't exist yet. If you want _some_ highlighting for your SQL variant, or your language that borrows many common idioms, or just sloppy code that's close enough to the target language, this could be useful.

It seems to me that syntax highlighting that isn't very close to 100% accurate is anti-useful.

You can play with it online. I was pretty impressed with the speed/quality given it's size.

It's definitely not going to replace a larger frontier model, but it's worth keeping an eye on.

I don't use them as coding agents, but they can be very useful for things like text transformation, summarizing, or text extraction.

That said, if you have a subscription to a paid model already, you're not necessarily winning out on anything except perhaps privacy, which isn't nothing.