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Re:Muse Spark Open by bigyabai on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:33PM (#50112663)
I'm using Flash and the full 5.3 model side-by-side, and for coding I'm hard-pressed to find a difference. Flash is slightly worse at steering in longer contexts, but writes code that's just as good as anything I get out of full 5.3. You could totally build a SaaS or video game with nothing but 5.3 Flash.

The full 5.3 is only really needed for super deep bugfixes/profiling passes, or ridiculous reverse-engineering in my experience.

Re:Muse Spark Open by colingauvin on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:00PM (#50112930)
Yeah, MiMo Pro is the first Chinese model I can really clearly identify as an upgrade over GLM 5.3 Flash. K3, Qwen 3.8 Pro, GLM 5.3, DS4.1 Flash all feel around equivalent to me. Oddly lots of people have derided MiMo but I have found it able to tackle slightly tougher problems. For instance, I tried GLM 5.3 Flash, DS4.1 Flash, and MiMo Pro on making a new map layer for my Garmin watch, and MiMo was the only one that found the actual best method (.img file for OSM).
Re:Muse Spark Open by satirr on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:13AM (#50137858)
Garmin.img thing is the interesting, but not really on my Experience.

Been running the same stuff on GLM 5.3 Flash, Deepseek v4p, Qwen 3.x model and Mimo v2.x pro model. Mimo faster yeah, but its hallucinate more and losses the thread easier. And when the context window is not limited, when usage of >200k token, is loss context. even he didnt know what im sayin.

Also, sometimes he Had a Loop over and over, for the same tool call (on my case is Grep and Read. >15x looping) until is burning a bunch of context for nothing. GLM and Deepseek doesn't do that (but the deepseek Hallucinations is huge asf too).

Is your Mimo do the same too??

Re:Muse Spark Open by lifeisloving on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:24PM (#50113645)
In my experience, like most models, it requires a ton of supervision. It is extermely verbose. Flash loves to create some wildly unecessary abstractions/spaghetti code (like most llms). It wants to implement things in the least effecient manner and needs to be reminded constantly not to do things a certain way.