alt Hacker NewsI used Qwen 3.6 27B extensively (>1B tokens) and DeepSeek V4 Flash (the older one also 2B+ tokens).
And I just can't fathom that the new 3.8 beats the new DeepSeek V4 Flash (which, in my eyes, is one of the best everyday coding models).
What an insane release, and convenient size to use every day/locally.
but i will test this model extensivly.
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How is the general knowledge of Qwen 3.6? Do you need to explain things outside of algorithms to it? Since the size is so small, I guess you need more explanations to it. General knowledge helps with coding when your don't specify a lot of details and ask for big changes.
> I used Qwen 3.6 27B extensively (>1B tokens) and DeepSeek V4 Flash
Were your opinions effected by the harness ?
DS is an amazing combo. It probably could only happen in China, not in current USA or EU (for different reasons)
I’ve been using v4 Flash 0731 a lot lately and you can’t beat the price performance. That said, it sometimes takes my prompts as more of a suggestion than a directive. I’ve found that introducing a reviewer subagent (even with the same model) helps push it back to what I’ve asked for. But makes every coding session a back and forth: “do X” -> “use a reviewer subagent to analyze whether you really did X as I asked”.