It wasn't really used enough and it sat in an awkward middle space between luna and sol where either luna high/xhigh or sol med were better cost/perf wise
replyI don't agree. In "none" thinking mode, Terra serves a useful purpose where medium-grade intelligence is needed. Luna doesn't cut it.
replyHardly enough time had passed to develop the data to come to a conclusion. Users can take time to build interest.
I'm scared now, my employer only allows Luna and Terra on 5.6. I really hope they will allow Sol then on GPT 6.
replyFunny thing is they very recently also set a real limit per-user/month, so why even limit the models because theyre "too expensive".
Your employer should reconsider. Sol high is cheaper than Terra max and smarter, when measured per task. ie even if tokens are more expensive Sol can often do a job with fewer tokens.
replyI read that there are rumors that they're getting rid of that tier. No idea where the rumor came from, though. This lends credence to it, I suppose.
replySol price is halved so no need for terra
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replyIt probably didn't see that much use, as it struggled to find a niche. If you wanted intelligence tasks, Sol was cheap enough and much smarter. If you wanted performance and cost-effectiveness, Luna was significantly better value while being only a little less intelligent.
replyTerra ended up just being an awkward middle ground that was not particularly suited for any workload.
I disagree. After a bit of experimenting, I actually found Terra to be a very good workhorse model on none-to-medium reasoning, and I actually quite prefer its code to Sol's in many cases. It has less of a complexity to over-complicate things. Where Sol would have a sea of try/except and recoveries for situations that are structurally impossible, Terra would just write nice, sequential code.
replyMaybe for one-shotting large things Sol is better, but for prod code where I decompose into smaller tasks and read all the code I favored Terra.
Sol 5.6 was still king for architecture/research in my workflow, though.
I have found it worked quite well as the workhorse model in my hermes agent.
replyThe users of Terra disagree. Specifically, Terra is useful when medium-grade intelligence is needed in instant ("none" thinking) mode.
replyHardly enough time had passed to develop the data to come to a conclusion. Users can take time to develop an interest.