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by Reaperdoesntknow
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALCODING HELPWRITING HELPFAST RESPONSES
RANKED #4 OF 266 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #4 OF 6,580 · VIBE SCORE 7.6 · 9,085 VOICES
A quick text model built for coding help and everyday writing tasks.
HAPPY9.8
10 mentions
SAD5.2
10 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 17,521 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Discovery once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
70.6M parameters, unquantized safetensors file is about 280 MB
- BARE MINIMUM
Intel Core i5-8250U laptop
8 GB RAM
~$130 USEDFull precision FP16/BF16 on CPU, ~25 tok/s, 4k context
- SWEET SPOT
Mac mini M2
8 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$450 USEDFull precision BF16, ~70 tok/s, 8k context
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
12 GB VRAM
~$260 USEDFull precision BF16 in VRAM, ~140 tok/s, full context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN DISCOVERY?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Discovery takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMIntel Core i5-8250U laptop | SWEET SPOTMac mini M2 | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~20 S★★★★★ | ~7 S★★★★★ | ~4 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~60 S★★★★★ | ~21 S★★★★★ | ~11 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~5.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.9 MIN★★★★★ | ~57 S★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~17 MIN★★★★★ | ~6 MIN★★★★★ | ~3 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~10 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.8 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users find Discovery by Reaperdoesntknow fast, great at coding, and well worth the price for writing help. However, some complain about unexpected outages, preachy refusals, and occasional made-up facts.
6422 POSTS · 2663 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB · DEV.TO · BLOG · HACKER NEWS · X · LEMMY · DEV FORUMS · BLUESKY
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (22 mentions)
- People feel it is worth the money (13 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (11 mentions)
- Good at writing and wording things (6 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (21 mentions)
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (17 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (10 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codeMOSTLY POSITIVE
22 thumbs up · 8 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
5 thumbs up · 21 thumbs down
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
13 thumbs up · 10 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightMIXED FEELINGS
12 thumbs up · 10 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
2 thumbs up · 17 thumbs down
- SpeedMOSTLY POSITIVE
11 thumbs up · 5 thumbs down
- WritingMOSTLY POSITIVE
6 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Long conversationsPEOPLE LOVE THIS
5 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Discovery.
GLM 5.3
DeepSeek V4 Flash> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2025-09-11 · 6291 UPVOTESEnjoy ChatGPT while it lasts…. the ads are coming
Enjoy ChatGPT while it lasts…. the ads are coming
- REDDIT · 2025-08-06 · 2184 UPVOTESI reverse-engineered ChatGPT's "reasoning" and found the 1 prompt pattern that makes it 10x smarter
I reverse-engineered ChatGPT's "reasoning" and found the 1 prompt pattern that makes it 10x smarter
- REDDIT · 2025-05-14 · 1950 UPVOTESDeepMind introduces AlphaEvolve: a Gemini-powered coding agent for algorithm discovery
DeepMind introduces AlphaEvolve: a Gemini-powered coding agent for algorithm discovery
- REDDIT · 2026-06-15 · 1720 UPVOTESThe White House Is Ratcheting Up Its War Against Anthropic
The White House Is Ratcheting Up Its War Against Anthropic
- REDDIT · 2025-10-22 · 1358 UPVOTESGoogle breakthrough in using Quantum computing for drug discovery and material science
Google breakthrough in using Quantum computing for drug discovery and material science
- REDDIT · 2025-04-19 · 1337 UPVOTESAI has grown beyond human knowledge, says Google's DeepMind unit
AI has grown beyond human knowledge, says Google's DeepMind unit
- REDDIT · 2025-07-26 · 893 UPVOTESOpenAI are now stealth routing all o3 requests to GPT-5
OpenAI are now stealth routing all o3 requests to GPT-5
- REDDIT · 2025-09-05 · 885 UPVOTES🚨 GPT-5 has been politically censored for the Trump regime 🚨
🚨 GPT-5 has been politically censored for the Trump regime 🚨
- REDDIT · 2024-11-04 · 748 UPVOTESSam Altman says in 5 years we will have "an unbelievably rapid rate of improvement in technology", a "totally crazy" pace of progress and…
Sam Altman says in 5 years we will have "an unbelievably rapid rate of improvement in technology", a "totally crazy" pace of progress and discovery, and AGI will have come and gone, but society will change surprisingly little.
- REDDIT · 2026-03-30 · 712 UPVOTESWorld models will be the next big thing, bye-bye LLMs
World models will be the next big thing, bye-bye LLMs
- REDDIT · 2025-10-11 · 676 UPVOTESAI is progressing like dog years
AI is progressing like dog years
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-09-04 · 612 UPVOTESDiscovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board