Yes
But flash performed as well or better (as in being more thorough) in 13 out if 16
epolanski on Hacker News
13 out of 16
In the thread “Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence”, replying to this comment
Helped: DeepSeek Flash efficiency on most work-related tasks.
Got in the way: Looping out of focus on one task; lagging on difficult bugs.
… Opus 4.8 came out as a winner by 1 task only where both DS4 pro and flash looped out of "focus". But flash performed as well or better (as in being more thorough) in 13 out if 16. The way I see it even DS4 flash is as efficient as top dogs and only starts lagging on very vibecodey (generating lots of stuff) or very difficult bugs. …