There’s still room to beat Deepseek in communicating clearly and following instructions to the letter (it’s very over-eager imo). I can put it in subagent but for main model, as far as open models go, there’s still no alternative to GLM-5.3 Flash.

(Though to be frank even Sol&Astra have the same problems, and Deepseek is probably heavily "inspired". I guess it may come down to preference though the new Terra 6.1 does very favorably on both of those aspects. I really do prefer to work with it. Wish there was some kind of Terra Super with the same benchmarks as the bigger models.)