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Yep, I saw last night when a few hours into using it I got a this response:

> Error: Thank you for participating in the Stealth Union Alpha testing period. This model was Unbiased's Pareto.

One of my friends quipped that "Unbiased Pareto" still sounded like the name of a stealth model.

I'm not sure if I just noticed it later, but this definitely seemed to be a lot shorter than other stealth alphas I've tried. I wouldn't be shocked if this is more typical going forward though, or if stealth alphas entirely go away, since it certainly costs a bit of money to market this way.

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This one was more "fly by night" than "stealth" :)

We got drive-by modelled.-

Given that I don't pay for any subscriptions and just coast on the free tiers of OpenCode and OpenRouter (along with some judicious use of llama.cpp locally when things are scoped well enough enough for a local model), I'm fine with this.

I had the $20/month Claude one for a few months starting in February, but one day it randomly started returning me errors claiming I needed to pay for more credits despite the usage showing 8% for the week and 20% for the session, and I figured if they couldn't even communicate to me the difference between them screwing up the check for hitting the limit or an outage, it wasn't worth it for me to keep paying them. I dislike OpenAI too much to want to pay them any of my personal money for anything, and when I tried out Mistral Vibe it did not work very well for me (it kept not following instructions and eventually when I kept trying to push it to handle things better it somehow spiraled into simulating some sort of existential crisis, culminating in gibberish and random characters being dumped on my screen infinitely until I killed the process; incredibly entertaining, but not worth paying for)

> I figured if they couldn't even communicate to me the difference between them screwing up the check for hitting the limit or an outage, it wasn't worth it for me to keep paying them

Sensible.-

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