Better than what? Deepseek? GLM? Gemini 3.8?

OpenAI didn't mess up. The model would have been 100 % pointless and obsolete without the large price cuts it got, because of the cheap Chinese models.

The open models are getting closer and closer, and because they're open, people are not forced to pay the silly markup that is often over 1000x the cost to serve the model.

bro why. its literally the most overpriced model in existence right now. i could name about 10 models off the top of my head that would be better and cheaper

I use it for executing well-prepared plans sometimes. And for exploring larger codebases.

Not the same person but... nothing. Haiku just hasn't been an interesting model for a long time. If you want cheap and fast, there are lots of options that are simultaneously cheaper, faster, and capable than Haiku.

Things that Jev is probably a better tool for.

Nothing, because current Haiku is useless. But I use Qwen3.6 35B-A3B and it's both much faster and much more capable than Haiku. And Qwen3.8 27B can do so much more, decently replaces Sonnet, albeit not as fast. Luna doesn't feel more capable nor faster than Qwen3.8. I think Anthropic could surprise us with some more innovation in this niche.