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47249343 story simonw 1772639734   0     https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/4/qwen/ 783 Something is afoot in the land of Qwen 360 0 [47249782,47251232,47252866,47249818,47258977,47253610,47249593,47255370,47249805,47257471,47250655,47252317,47249735,47253053,47251207,47249693,47250419,47249953,47249557,47252541,47255131,47250156,47251728,47251755,47257988,47250020,47250015,47256556]   1774138414821
47249557 comment raffael_de 1772640513 &gt; me stepping down. bye my beloved qwen.<p>the qwen is dead, long live the qwen. 0 47249343           0     1774138414855
47249593 comment airstrike 1772640617 I&#x27;m hopeful they will pick up their work elsewhere and continue on this great fight for competitive open weight models.<p>To be honest, it&#x27;s sort of what I expected governments to be funding right now, but I suppose Chinese companies are a close second. 0 47249343           0     1774138414817
47249693 comment zoba 1772640999 I tried the new qwen model in Codex CLI and in Roo Code and I found it to be pretty bad. For instance I told it I wanted a new vite app and it just started writing all the files from scratch (which didn’t work) rather than using the vite CLI tool.<p>Is there a better agentic coding harness people are using for these models? Based on my experience I can definitely believe the claims that these models are overfit to Evals and not broadly capable. 0 47249343           0 [47249921,47252333,47253130,47252913,47251880]   1774138414845
47249735 comment ChrisArchitect 1772641192 More discussion:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=47246746">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=47246746</a> 0 47249343           0     1774138414842
47249782 comment sosodev 1772641351 I really hope this doesn&#x27;t hinder development too much. As Simon says, Qwen3.5 is very impressive.<p>I&#x27;ve been testing Qwen3.5-35B-A3B over the past couple of days and it&#x27;s a very impressive model. It&#x27;s the most capable agentic coding model I&#x27;ve tested at that size by far. I&#x27;ve had it writing Rust and Elixir via the Pi harness and found that it&#x27;s very capable of handling well defined tasks with minimal steering from me. I tell it to write tests and it writes sane ones ensuring they pass without cheating. It handles the loop of responding to test and compiler errors while pushing towards its goal very well. 0 47249343           0 [47251203,47250939,47250342,47252823,47250992,47249959,47250369,47254055]   1774138414812
47249805 comment skeeter2020 1772641442 Getting a bit of whiplash goin from AI is replacing people, to AI is dead without (these specific) people. Surely we&#x27;re far enough ahead that AI can take it from here?<p>Wild times! 0 47249343           0 [47251890,47249850,47249910,47251230]   1774138414826
47249818 comment softwaredoug 1772641486 I wonder how a US lab hasn&#x27;t dumped truckloads of cash into various laps to ensure these researchers have a place at their lab 0 47249343           0 [47250860,47250235,47254573,47249871,47249948,47254163,47250560,47251671,47252040]   1774138414831
47249850 comment vidarh 1772641592 Who is suggesting &quot;AI is dead without (these specific) people&quot;? People are wondering what it means <i>specifically for the Qwen model family</i>. 0 47249805           0     1774119946967
47249871 comment mft_ 1772641663 Indeed; or, Europe badly needs a competitive model to hedge against US political nonsense. 0 47249818           0 [47250825,47253271,47250815]   1774119947321
47249910 comment mhitza 1772641776 We&#x27;ve gone from AGI goals to short-term thinking via Ads. That puts things better in perspective, I think. 0 47249805           0     1774119946969
47249921 comment sosodev 1772641814 I&#x27;ve noticed that open weight models tend to hesitate to use tools or commands unless they appeared often in the training or you tell them very explicitly to do so in your AGENTS.md or prompt.<p>They also struggle at translating very broad requirements to a set of steps that I find acceptable. Planning helps a lot.<p>Regarding the harness, I have no idea how much they differ but I seem to have more luck with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pi.dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pi.dev</a> than OpenCode. I think the minimalism of Pi meshes better with the limited capabilities of open models. 0 47249693           0 [47252206]   1774119946729
47249948 comment bilbo0s 1772641912 They probably have tried, but you have to have more cash than those researchers feel they can get starting their own lab. When you consider the fact that their new startup lab would have the entire nation of China as, in effect, a captive market; you start to see how almost any amount of money would be too little to convince them not to make a run at that new startup. If money is their aim.<p>I think Alibaba needs to just give these guys a blank check. Let them fill it in themselves. Absent that, I&#x27;m pretty sure they&#x27;ll make their own startup.<p>I do think it&#x27;d be a big loss for the rest of the world though if they close whatever model their startup comes up with. 0 47249818           0 [47250689]   1774119947326
47249953 comment vonneumannstan 1772641930 Were they kneecapped by Anthropic blocking their distillation attempts? 0 47249343           0 [47252253,47263777]   1774138414844
47249959 comment paoliniluis 1772641962 what&#x27;s your take between Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and Qwen3-Coder-Next? 0 47249782           0 [47250043,47250205,47251051,47258917]   1774119947588
47250015 comment butILoveLife 1772642192 [flagged] 1 47249343           0 [47250125,47250147,47251041,47250141]   1774138414864
47250020 comment multisport 1772642205 [flagged] 1 47249343           0     1774138414864
47250043 comment sosodev 1772642311 In my experience Qwen3.5 is better even at smaller distillations. From what I understand the Qwen3-next series of models was just a test&#x2F;preview of the architectural changes underpinning Qwen3.5. So Qwen3.5 is a more complete and well trained version of those models. 0 47249959           0     1774123218450
47250125 comment kamranjon 1772642585 I use Qwen 3 Coder Next daily on my mac as my main coding agent. It is incredibly capable and its strange how you are painting this picture as if its a fringe use case, there are whole communities that have popped up around running local models. 0 47250015           0 [47250270]   1774119946489
47250141 comment benatkin 1772642638 I think this is directing coders towards self-sufficiency and that&#x27;s a good thing. If they don&#x27;t end up using it for agentic coding, they can use it for running tests, builds, non-agentic voice controlled coding, video creation, running kubernetes, or agent orchestration. So no, it&#x27;s not evil, even if it doesn&#x27;t go quite as expected. 0 47250015           0     1774119946496
47250147 comment simonw 1772642655 The thing I&#x27;m most excited about is the moment that I run a model on my 64GB M2 that can usefully drive a coding agent harness.<p><i>Maybe</i> Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is that model? This comment reports good results: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=47249343#47249782">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=47249343#47249782</a><p>I need to put that through its paces. 0 47250015           0 [47250251,47250336]   1774119946492
47250156 comment hwers 1772642678 My conspiracy theory hat is that somehow investors with a stake in openai as well is sabotaging, like they did when kicking emad out of stabilityai 0 47249343           0 [47251184,47256087,47251258]   1774138414856
47250205 comment kamranjon 1772642858 In my experience qwen 3 coder next is better. I ran quite a few tests yesterday and it was much better at utilizing tool calls properly and understanding complex code. For its size though 3.5 35B was very impressive. coder next is an 80b model so i think its just a size thing - also for whatever reason coder next is faster on my machine. Only model that is competitive in speed is GLM 4.7 flash 0 47249959           0 [47250313]   1774123218467
47250235 comment velcrovan 1772642959 What the US has done is dumped truckloads of cash to make it likely that as a legal immigrant you will be abducted and sent to a camp. 0 47249818           0 [47250786,47250887,47250418]   1774119947222
47250251 comment JLO64 1772643010 Yesterday I test ran Qwen3.5-35B-A3B on my MBP M3 Pro with 36GB via LM Studio and OpenCode. I didn’t have it write code but instead use Rodney (thanks for making it btw!) to take screenshots and write documentation using them. Overall I was pretty impressed at how well it handled the harness and completed the task locally. In the past I would’ve had Haiku do this, but I might switch to doing it locally from now on. 0 47250147           0     1774123215620
47250270 comment butILoveLife 1772643073 Can I doubt your claim? I have had such terrible luck with AI coding on &lt;400B models. Not to mention, I imagine your codebase is tiny. Or you are working for some company that isnt keeping track of your productivity.<p>I am trying super hard to use cheap models, and outside SOTA models, they have been more trouble than they are worth. 0 47250125           0 [47251287,47251900]   1774123215619
47250313 comment xrd 1772643264 What do you use as the orchestrator? By this I mean opencode, or the like. Is that the right term? 0 47250205           0 [47250349,47252131,47253779]   1774132560861
47250336 comment xrd 1772643341 I suppose this shows my laziness because I&#x27;m sure you have written extensively about it, but what orchestrator (like opencode) do you use with local models? 0 47250147           0 [47250386]   1774123215617
47250342 comment Twirrim 1772643359 I&#x27;ve been testing the same with some rust, and it&#x27;s has spent a fair bit of time going through an infinite seeming loop before finally unjamming itself. It seems a little more likely to jam up than some other models I&#x27;ve experimented with.<p>It&#x27;s also driving itself crazy with deadpool &amp; deadpool-r2d2 that it chose during planning phase.<p>That said, it does seem to be doing a very good job in general, the code it has created is mostly sane other than this fuss over the database layer, which I suspect I&#x27;ll have to intervene on. It&#x27;s certainly doing a better job than other models I&#x27;m able to self-host so far. 0 47249782           0 [47250692,47250509,47251936,47252439]   1774119947562
47250349 comment simonw 1772643386 I use the term &quot;harness&quot; for those - or just &quot;coding agent&quot;. I think orchestrator is more appropriate for systems that try to coordinate multiple agents running at the same time.<p>This terminology is still very much undefined though, so my version may not be the winning definition. 0 47250313           0     1774138415864
47250369 comment a3b_unknown 1772643464 What is the meaning of &#x27;A3B&#x27;? 0 47249782           0 [47250423]   1774119947679
47250386 comment simonw 1772643527 I&#x27;ve not really settled on one yet. I&#x27;ve tried OpenCode and Codex CLI, but I know I should give Pi a proper go.<p>So far none of them have be useful enough at first glance with a local model for me to stick with them and dig in further. 0 47250336           0 [47250547,47251142]   1774132559480
47250418 comment   1772643602   0 47250235           1     1774123218042
47250419 comment ilaksh 1772643602 Does anyone know when the small Qwen 3.5 models are going to be on OpenRouter? 0 47249343           0 [47250593]   1774138414839
47250423 comment simonw 1772643618 It&#x27;s the number of active parameters for a Mixture of Experts (misleading name IMO) model.<p>Qwen3.5-35B-A3B means that the model itself consists of 35 billion floating point numbers - very roughly 35GB of data - which are all loaded into memory at once.<p>But... on any given pass through the model weights only 3 billion of those parameters are &quot;active&quot; aka have matrix arithmetic applied against them.<p>This speeds up inference considerably because the computer has to do less operations for each token that is processed. It still needs the full amount of memory though as the 3B active it uses are likely different on every iteration. 0 47250369           0 [47252645]   1774123218453
47250509 comment sosodev 1772643932 Some of the early quants had issues with tool calling and looping. So you might want to check that you&#x27;re running the latest version &#x2F; recommended settings. 0 47250342           0     1774123218798
47250547 comment xrd 1772644040 I&#x27;ve used opencode and the remote free models they default to aren&#x27;t awful but definitely not on par with Gemini CLI nor Claude. I&#x27;m really interested in trying to find a way to chain multiple local high end consumer Nvidia cards into an alternative to the big labs offering. 0 47250386           0 [47251338]   1774138414872
47250560 comment ecshafer 1772644091 China is also giving them dump trucks full of cash though. Plus you have to content with the nationalism reason (unfortunately this has died off in America for too many). The idea of building your country is valued for most Chinese I have met. Plus China is incredibly nice to live in, especially if you have lots of money and&#x2F;or connections. So you can work in China, get paid lots of money, feel like you are doing good. Or In America you can get paid lots of money, and get yelled at by people online because the Government wants to use your model. 0 47249818           0 [47250661,47251193,47251451,47252543,47250859,47253058,47250746]   1774119947340
47250593 comment armanj 1772644186 they&#x27;re already there ?? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openrouter.ai&#x2F;qwen&#x2F;qwen3.5-27b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openrouter.ai&#x2F;qwen&#x2F;qwen3.5-27b</a> 0 47250419           0 [47251013,47251061]   1774119946732
47250655 comment quantum_state 1772644495 I would second that Qwen3.5 is exceptionally good. In a calibration, it (35b variant) was running locally with Ada NextGen 24GB to do the same things with easy-llm-cli in comparison with gemini-cli + Gemini 3 Pro, they were at par … really impressive it ran pretty fast … 0 47249343           0 [47252119]   1774138414833
47250661 comment danny_codes 1772644508 China city life is amazingly convenient. Trains and subways are just such an enormous quality of life boost. Add to that the relative cleanliness of having nearly zero homelessness and you’ve got something very compelling.<p>I will say we are winning in accessibility. China doesn’t have much of a ramp game 0 47250560           0 [47250907]   1774123217882
47250689 comment simgt 1772644629 &gt; I do think it&#x27;d be a big loss for the rest of the world though if they close whatever model their startup comes up with.<p>That&#x27;s very likely to happen once the gap with OpenAI&#x2F;Anthropic has been closed and they managed to pop the bubble. 0 47249948           0 [47251052]   1774123217890
47250692 comment Aurornis 1772644640 &gt; it&#x27;s has spent a fair bit of time going through an infinite seeming loop before finally unjamming itself.<p>I think this is part of the model’s success. It’s cheap enough that we’re all willing to let it run for extremely long times. It takes advantage of that by being tenacious. In my experience it will just keep trying things relentlessly until eventually something works.<p>The downside is that it’s more likely to arrive at a solution that solves the problem I asked but does it in a terribly hacky way. It reminds me of some of the junior devs I’ve worked with who trial and error their way into tests passing.<p>I frequently have to reset it and start it over with extra guidance. It’s not going to be touching any of my serious projects for these reasons but it’s fun to play with on the side. 0 47250342           0     1774123218758
47250746 comment jamespo 1772644927 Damn that social conscience, huh? 0 47250560           0     1774123217886
47250786 comment riddlemethat 1772645134 [flagged] 1 47250235           0 [47251277,47251360]   1774123218047
47250815 comment tiahura 1772645245 Competitive models are illegal in the EU. 0 47249871           0     1774123218044
47250825 comment ivan_gammel 1772645272 Offering „You are welcome“ relocation package to Anthropic might be a good idea. 0 47249871           0 [47251538,47251252]   1774123217888
47250859 comment petcat 1772645375 &gt; Or In America you can get paid lots of money, and get yelled at by people online because the Government wants to use your model.<p>Isn&#x27;t it just straight-up illegal in China to <i>refuse</i> the government from using your model? USA isn&#x27;t perfect, but at least it has active discourse. 0 47250560           0 [47258119,47251691,47251976]   1774123216110
47250860 comment gaoshan 1772645378 ICE has been detaining Chinese people in my area (and going door to door in at least one neighborhood where a lot of Chinese and Indians live). I was hearing about this just last week as word spread amongst the Chinese community here (Ohio) to make sure you have some legal documentation beyond just your driver&#x27;s license on you at all times for protection. People will hear about this through the grapevine and it has a massive (and rightly so) chilling effect. US labs can try but with US government behaving like it is I don&#x27;t think they will have much luck.<p>*edit: not that it matters, but since MAGA can&#x27;t help but assume, these are all US citizens and green card holders that I am referring to. 0 47249818           0 [47251001,47262967,47253901,47255523,47251265,47250937]   1774119947208
47250887 comment gordonhart 1772645494 [flagged] 1 47250235           0 [47252651,47251153,47251076,47251294]   1774123218046
47250907 comment softwaredoug 1772645572 All very true.<p>I wonder if you max out your options in China. It seems the Party is suspicious of ambition and high profile winners. I&#x27;m sure you can live comfortably, but there&#x27;s a ceiling. 0 47250661           0 [47254162,47252572]   1774132560093
47250937 comment sourcegrift 1772645685 Yes. Yes, so true. And the phd types building these models are probably even scared in China that ICE will fly there to deport them. 0 47250860           0 [47251231]   1774123218274
47250939 comment abhikul0 1772645687 Are you running it locally with llama.cpp? If so, is it working without any tweaking of the chat template? The tool calls fail for me when using the default chat template, however it seems to work a whole lot better with this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;Qwen&#x2F;Qwen3.5-35B-A3B&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;9#699f8e8d16fcfc9bb99aa77f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;Qwen&#x2F;Qwen3.5-35B-A3B&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;9#69...</a> 0 47249782           0 [47256366,47251195]   1774119947560
47250992 comment nu11ptr 1772645893 What hardware do you have it running on? Do you feel you could replace the frontier models with it for everyday coding? Would&#x2F;will you? 0 47249782           0 [47253513,47251069,47251707]   1774119947580
47251001 comment bobthepanda 1772645926 Yeah, the Hyundai factory fiasco kind of dashed the idea that the enforcement would spare people working in favored industries setting up in the US. 0 47250860           0 [47252672]   1774123218132
47251013 comment ilaksh 1772645958 Like 4B, 2B, 9B. Supposedly they are surprisingly smart. 0 47250593           0 [47251770]   1774123215750
47251041 comment NortySpock 1772646082 I managed to get qwen2.5-coder:14B working under ollama on an Nvidia 2080 Ti with 11GB of VRAM, using ollama cli, outputting what looks like 200 words-per-minute to my eye<p>It has been useful for education (&quot;What does this Elixir code do? &lt;Paste file&gt; ..... &lt;general explanation&gt; &quot;then What this line mean?&quot;)<p>as well as getting a few basic tests written when I&#x27;m unfamiliar with the syntax. (&quot;In Elixir Phoenix, given &lt;subject under test, paste entire module file&gt; and &lt;test helper module, paste entire file&gt; and &lt;existing tests, pasted in, used both for context and as examples&gt; , what is one additional test you would write?&quot;)<p>This is useful in that I get a single test I can review, run, paste in, and I&#x27;m not using any quota. Generally I have to fix it, but that&#x27;s just a matter of reading the actual test and throwing the test failure output to the LLM to propose a fix. Some human judgement is required but once I got going adding a test took 10 minutes despite being relatively unfamiliar with Elixir Phoenix .<p>It&#x27;s a nice loop, I&#x27;m in the loop, and I&#x27;m learning Elixir and contributing a useful feature that has tests. 0 47250015           0     1774119946494
47251051 comment karmakaze 1772646120 We don&#x27;t have a Qwen3.5-Coder to compare with, but there is a chart comparing Qwen3.5 to Qwen3 including Qwen3-Next[0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;LocalLLaMA&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1rivckt&#x2F;visualizing_all_qwen_35_vs_qwen_3_benchmarks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;LocalLLaMA&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1rivckt&#x2F;visuali...</a> 0 47249959           0     1774123218486
47251052 comment bobthepanda 1772646121 I don’t know, the EV bubble deflated and Chinese firms are still pumping them out with subsidies like their life depends on it. 0 47250689           0     1774132560202
47251061 comment yorwba 1772646174 There are smaller ones on HuggingFace <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;models?other=qwen3_5&amp;sort=least_params&amp;search=Qwen%2FQwen3.5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;models?other=qwen3_5&amp;sort=least_param...</a> with 0.8B, 2B, 4B and 9B parameters. 0 47250593           0     1774123215744
47251069 comment bigyabai 1772646226 I&#x27;m getting ~30 tok&#x2F;s on the A3B model with my 3070 Ti and 32k context.<p>&gt; Do you feel you could replace the frontier models with it for everyday coding? Would&#x2F;will you?<p>Probably not yet, but it&#x27;s really good at composing shell commands. For scripting or one-liner generation, the A3B is really good. The web development skills are markedly better than Qwen&#x27;s prior models in this parameter range, too. 0 47250992           0 [47252738,47262348]   1774123218598
47251076 comment autoexec 1772646256 Give them time, they&#x27;ve only just started. They do waste a lot time abducting random US citizens though. 0 47250887           0     1774132560322
47251142 comment PhilipRoman 1772646524 When you say you use local model in OpenCode, do you mean through the ollama backend? Last time I tried it with various models, I got issues where the model was calling tools in the wrong format. 0 47250386           0 [47253919]   1774138414888
47251153 comment marci 1772646562 Unfortunately, the most extreme is that it&#x27;s the new normal that now, there&#x27;s &gt;0 chance that someone, whether they are a US citizen or not apparently, child or adult, can end up in a camp, with no due process. 0 47250887           0     1774132560216
47251184 comment storus 1772646668 More likely some high ranking party member&#x27;s nepobaby from Gemini sniffed success with Qwen and the original folks just walked away as their reward disappeared. 0 47250156           0 [47252728]   1774119946625
47251193 comment 1024core 1772646705 I got an offer out of the blue for a consulting gig in ML, offering USD 400&#x2F;hr in China. Assuming this was legit (the offeror seemed legit), it looks like China is also throwing a lot of Benjamins around... 0 47250560           0     1774123216104
47251195 comment arcanemachiner 1772646719 Have you tried the &#x27;--jinja&#x27; flag in llama-server? 0 47250939           0 [47251771]   1774123218936
47251203 comment misnome 1772646746 I&#x27;ve been playing with 3.5:122b on a GH200 the past few days for rust&#x2F;react&#x2F;ts, and while it&#x27;s clearly sub-Sonnet, with tight descriptions it can get small-medium tasks done OK - as well as Sonnet if the scope is small.<p>The main quirk I&#x27;ve found is that it has a tendency to decide halfway through following my detailed instructions that it would be &quot;simpler&quot; to just... not do what I asked, and I find it has stripped all the preliminary support infrastructure for the new feature out of the code. 0 47249782           0 [47252587,47253473,47252702,47251463,47254811,47260017,47254039]   1774119947469
47251207 comment   1772646759   0 47249343           1     1774138414832
47251230 comment dude250711 1772646873 Claude is incapable of producing a native application for itself, and is bad enough with web ones to justify Anthropic acquiring Bun. 0 47249805           0     1774119946983
47251231 comment jwolfe 1772646875 This thread is about bringing these people to the US. 0 47250937           0 [47259374,47260261]   1774132560337
47251232 comment hintymad 1772646877 There has been tension between Qwen&#x27;s research team and Alibaba&#x27;s product team, say the Qwen App. And recently, Alibaba tried to impose DAU as a KPI. It&#x27;s understandable that a company like Alibaba would force a change of product strategy for any number of reasons. What puzzled me is why they would push out the key members of their research team. Didn&#x27;t the industry have a shortage of model researchers and builders? 0 47249343           0 [47252171,47259517]   1774138414820
47251252 comment Imustaskforhelp 1772646943 Given how American govt. has treated Anthropic, I think you might be right. EU truly has a remarkable opportunity to make Anthropic&#x2F;Claude European. 0 47250825           0 [47251634,47253528,47255335,47253491]   1774132560214
47251258 comment liuliu 1772646959 apples v.s. oranges. The later is true, Emad did get sabotaged (for not being able to raise money in time, about 8-month before he&#x27;s leaving). Junyang didn&#x27;t have that long arc of incidents. 0 47250156           0     1774119946611
47251265 comment ljsprague 1772646981 [flagged] 1 47250860           0 [47251805,47252101,47252585,47251292,47251966]   1774123218175
47251277 comment mattnewton 1772647061 I feel like we would disagree on the role of immigration in the US but I really appreciate you calling out how the current administration’s approach is only effective at making viral clips online. Meta comment, but it’s refreshing to talk with people who have different goals while still referencing a shared reality. Removing the masks and adding cameras shouldn’t be controversial unless your goal really is to make a paramilitary force for the president. 0 47250786           0 [47252611]   1774132560332
47251287 comment arcanemachiner 1772647125 Yesterday, I got Qwen-Coder-Next to build a python script that reads a Postman collection, pulls the data from it to build a request to one of the endpoints, download a specific group of files whose URLs were buried in the JSON payload in that endpoint, then transform then all to a specific size of PNG, all without breaking a sweat. I didn&#x27;t even have to tell it to use Pillow, but it did everything to a T.<p>Use case means everything. I doubt this model would fare well on a large codebase, but this thing is incredible. 0 47250270           0     1774132559485
47251292 comment mattnewton 1772647173 Sometimes, often times no. They have detained multiple US citizens. 0 47251265           0 [47256145,47256118]   1774132560465
47251294 comment halJordan 1772647181 I think it would be a useful exercise to look at all the revocations of legal access in the us, and then do the division to see how we&#x27;ve increased the likelihood of becoming an illegal, and therefore targeted.<p>I dont think youre as right as you want to believe. Certainly not as right as I want you to believe 0 47250887           0     1774132560327
47251360 comment cmrdporcupine 1772647451 The unstated but obvious (to me?) goal of what ICE is doing is not to get large numbers of people out of the country, but to drive costs down for migrant labor by further disenfranchising them, making them scared, marginal, etc.<p>If they actually thoroughly evicted non-status migrant workers they&#x27;d have a outright revolt on their hands from farmers and other businesses that depend on them.<p>Instead those businesses can now take further advantage of the fear of harassment and&#x2F;or deportation to drive down compensation and rights.<p>Contrast with countries like Canada that have a legal temporary foreign agriculture worker program that provides a regulated source of seasonal migrant farm worker labour under a non-citizen temporary status, but with some rights (still often abused). It&#x27;s notable to me as a Canadian that I don&#x27;t see this being advocated on any large scale by either party in the US.<p>Anyways, all this just to say that the jackboot clown theater is the point, not a side effect. 0 47250786           0 [47251879,47251531]   1774132560335
47251451 comment VWWHFSfQ 1772647819 &gt; China is incredibly nice to live in<p>I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s a very nice place to live if you&#x27;re content to just stay quiet in society and never put a political sign in your yard or even just talk about the wrong thing with your friend in a WeChat. 0 47250560           0 [47259761,47252810,47252606]   1774123216107
47251463 comment reactordev 1772647891 Turn down the temperature and you’ll see less “simpler” short cuts. 0 47251203           0 [47252883]   1774123219046
47251531 comment reactordev 1772648139 They do have a revolt on their hands from farmers… go watch some of their pleas for help. 0 47251360           0 [47251808]   1774138415467
47251538 comment cmrdporcupine 1772648157 Anthropic has gone out of their way to make a point about how much they love and admire the US state and its defense sector. Only drawing the line at a very far point and even when they drew the line it was with a big thing about how they believe in the American defense sector blah blah blah.<p>In any case, there&#x27;s no way Anthropic&#x27;s investors in Silicon Valley would countenance such a move.<p>Also, I&#x27;m biased the logical place is Canada, not Europe. Much of the fundamental&#x2F;foundational research on LLMs, and a large part of the talent, came from universities in Canada anyways. 0 47250825           0 [47258511]   1774132560209
47251634 comment petcat 1772648541 This US administration (or any admin) would almost certainly impose export controls on US AI technology before it would allow one of the frontier model providers to be acquired&#x2F;relocate outside the US. It did the same thing when ASML wanted to acquire Cymer (California company that provides the EUV light source technology). The acquisition was only allowed under strict technology sharing&#x2F;export agreements with the Dutch government.<p>Europe really just needs to rally behind Mistral. That&#x27;s where they should dump their cash. 0 47251252           0 [47253324,47252562,47265783]   1774138415266
47251671 comment mmaunder 1772648699 Yeah that was my first thought is it’s a tit for tat poach. They got the Gemini researcher so google responded in kind. 0 47249818           0     1774119947349
47251691 comment ecshafer 1772648777 I would imagine if it isn&#x27;t illegal its a very bad idea not to. But regardless, I would bet large amounts of money that you would never get any flack for doing anything for the government. If I went on X, Threads, Bluesky, TikTok and said &quot;Hey I am a software engineer selling awesome new technology to the government and military!&quot; I am going to get <i>Americans</i> attacking me for supporting Trump &#x2F; ICE &#x2F; FBI whatever the current issue of the day is. If I did the same on Douyin or Weibo the response would be able making China strong, and there would be no criticism of that choice. 0 47250859           0 [47252037,47264677]   1774132559967
47251707 comment politelemon 1772648891 60 to 70 on a 5080, but only tinkering for now. The smaller models seem exceptionally good for what they are, and some can even do OCR reliably. 0 47250992           0 [47275099]   1774123218704
47251728 comment kartika848484 1772648987 what the hell, their models were promising tho 0 47249343           0     1774138414857
47251755 comment aplomb1026 1772649099 [flagged] 1 47249343           0     1774138414860
47251770 comment Sakthimm 1772649164 Yep. The 9B has excellent image recognition. I showed it a PCB photo and it correctly identified all components and the board type from part numbers and shape. OCR quality was solid. Tool calling with opencode worked without issues, but general coding ability is still far from sonnet-tier. Asked it to add a feature to an existing react app, it couldn&#x27;t produce an error-free build and fell into a delete-redo loop. Even when I fixed the errors, the UI looked really bad. A more explicit prompt probably would have helped. Opus one-shotted it, same prompt, the component looked exactly as expected.<p>But I&#x27;ll be running this locally for note summarization, code review, and OCR. Very coherent for its size. 0 47251013           0 [47259027]   1774132559605
47251771 comment abhikul0 1772649167 Yes, it fails too. I’m using the unsloth q4_km quant. Similarly fails with devstral2 small too, fixed that by using a similar template i found for it. Maybe it’s the quants that are broken, need to redownload I guess. 0 47251195           0     1774132560989
47251805 comment Jcampuzano2 1772649284 The reality is - it doesn&#x27;t matter. The fact that they have had as many false positives as they have and the way they treat people in general causes it to have rippling effects even for people who are legally here, or are considering legally immigrating.<p>The risk and level of publicity is just too high for many people to even consider, especially people already intelligent&#x2F;capable enough to immigrate anywhere else that doesn&#x27;t have these issues or stay in their own country. 0 47251265           0 [47253435,47253406]   1774132560462
47251879 comment plorkyeran 1772649531 Limiting the supply of migrant labor drives costs <i>up</i>, not down, and the ICE raids have had a significant negative effect on businesses reliant on illegal immigrants. 0 47251360           0 [47251947]   1774138415386
47251880 comment ihsw 1772649531 [dead] 1 47249693           0     1774119946851
47251890 comment janalsncm 1772649559 Anthropic has one nine of uptime right now. One.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.claude.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.claude.com&#x2F;</a><p>If AI could effectively replace people, you wouldn’t need CEOs to keep trying to convince people. 0 47249805           0 [47252315,47253599,47256135,47252949,47252027,47257694,47252763]   1774119946964
47251900 comment kamranjon 1772649615 Absolutely. So my codebase is huge, it&#x27;s a monolith. But my work is in very specific parts of the codebase, I don&#x27;t pull the entire code base into context (and I don&#x27;t think that is common practice even with claude) - I start at a specific point with a specific task and work with the agent to achieve something clearly defined, for example writing tests, extracting things into separate files, refactoring or even scaffolding a new feature. You have to periodically start new threads, because you&#x27;ll start hitting the limits of the context, but I max it out at over 200k because I have the memory overhead on my 128gb mbp to do that, so I can get quite a lot done.<p>I really recommend trying the Qwen models - 3 coder next is really incredible. GLM 4.7 flash is also incredibly performant on modest hardware. Important things to consider is setting the temperature and top_p and top_k values etc based on what is recommended by the provider of the model - a thing as simple as that could result in a huge difference in performance.<p>The other big leap for me was switching to Zed editor and getting its agent stuff just seamlessly integrated. If you run LM Studio on your local machine it&#x27;s super easy and even setting it up on a remote machine and calling out to LM Studio is dead simple. 0 47250270           0     1774132559484
47251936 comment misnome 1772649751 &gt; and it&#x27;s has spent a fair bit of time going through an infinite seeming loop before finally unjamming itself<p>I can live with this on my own hardware. Where Opus4.6 has developed this tendency to where it will happily chew through the entire 5-hour allowance on the first instruction going in endless circles. I’ve stopped using it for anything except the extreme planning now. 0 47250342           0     1774123218818
47251966 comment misnome 1772649900 Who cares when you get a bonus per person either way? 0 47251265           0 [47293809]   1774132560467
47251976 comment neves 1772649943 At least it has been decades since China Gov bombed innocent people in other countries. A peaceful and responsible government. 0 47250859           0 [47252208,47255656,47252840]   1774132559970

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