alt Hacker Newsyou'd be surprised how good small models have gotten. Size of the model isnt all that matters.
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verdverm • today at 3:07 PM
My experience with qwen-3.6:35B-A3B reinforces this, gonna give this a spin when unsloth has quants available
Gemini flash was just as good as pro for most tasks with good prompts, tools, and context. Gemma 4 was nearly as good as flash and Qwen 3.6 appears to be even better.
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dudefeliciano • today at 3:41 PM
> Size of the model isnt all that matters.
What matters is the motion in the tokens
Plus you can control thinking time a lot more, so when Anthropic lobotomizes Opus on you...