Notes from the Rabbit Hole · Aug 2, 2026
GPT-5.6 Luna, Terra, Sol, and DeepSeek V4 Flash: The Cost of Finished Work
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The cheapest AI model isn’t the one with the lowest token price. It’s the one that gets acceptable work across the finish line with the fewest retries, repairs, and wasted minutes. That sounds obvious, but it is not how most of us pick models. When a model family has a cheap tier, an expensive tier, and a middle tier, the middle feels responsible. It sounds like the sensible default.…
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