alt Hacker NewsWould be awesome if it ran Qwen (the MoE probably won't squeeze that low, but...). This because I have hardly been able to use Gemma for any sort of useful coding.
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dofm • today at 5:12 PM
Gemma 4's tool calling was recently fixed; that was the main issue with agentic use in my experience.
Otherwise IMO it codes about as well as the Qwen MoE for PHP and SQL. It's a fully impressive model (though it is not as mindbendingly impressive as the 12B, which is outrageously good for its footprint)
You’re right, Gemma isn’t the best model for coding (afaik more "everyday tasks" related). My first idea was to use Qwen, but its architecture was much more complex to implement in this stack. I chose Gemma so I wouldn’t spend all my time debugging custom kernels and could actually move the project forward with simpler approach