Yes, this one is addictive for its speed and I like how Google was clever and also offered it in a powerful reasoning edition. This helps offset deficiencies from being smaller while still being cheap. I also find it quite sufficient for my kind of coding. I only pull out 2.5 Pro on larger and complex code bases that I think might need deeper domain specific knowledge beyond the coding itself.
Mad tangent, but as an old timey MtG player it’s always jarring when someone uses “the meta” not to refer to the particular dynamics of their competitive ecosystem but to a single strategy within it. Impoverishes the concept, I feel, even in this case where I don’t actually think a single model is best at everything.
I'm a World of Warcraft & Dota 2 player, using "the meta" in that way is pretty common in gaming these days I think. The "meta" is still the 'metagame' in the competitive ecosystem sense, but it also refers to strategies that are considered flavor of the month (FOTM) or just generally safe bets.
So there's "the meta", and there's "that strategy is meta", or "that strategy is the meta."
