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Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
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Re: Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
its an SKU from OpenAI's perspective, broader goal and vision is (was) different. Look at the Claude and GLM, both were 95% committed to dev tooling: best coding models, coding harness, even their cowork is built on top of claude code
I'm not sure how this makes sense when Claude models aren't even coding specific: Haiku, Sonnet, Opus are the exact same models you'd use for chat or (with the recent Mythos) bleeding edge research.
Anthropic models and training data is optimized for coding use cases, this is the difference.
OpenAI on the other hand has different models optimized for coding, GPT-x-codex, Anthropic doesnt have this distinction
Re: Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
#53Nowadays, I'm working on a realtime path tracer where you need proper understanding of microfacet reflection models, PDFs, (multiple) importance sampling, ReSTIR, etc.. Saying that mine is a somewhat specific use case. And I use Claude, Gemini, GLM, Qwen to double check my math, my code and to get practical information to make my path tracer more efficient. Claude and Gemini failed me more than a couple of times with…
How "social" does Quen feel? The way I am using LLMs for coding makes this actually the most important aspect by now. Claude 4.6 felt like a nice knowledgeable coworker who shared his thinking while solving problems. Claude 4.7 is the difficult anti-social guy who jumps ahead instead of actually answering your questions and does not like to talk to people in general. How are Qwen's social skills?
Re: Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
For serious work, the difference between spending $10/month and $100/month is not even worth considering for most professional developers. There are exceptions like students and people in very low income countries, but I’m always confused by developers with in careers where six figure salaries are normal who are going cheap on tools. I find even the SOTA models to be far away from trustworthy for anything beyond thro…
You need to supervise the model anyway, because you want that code to be long-term maintainable and defect free, and AI is nowhere near strong enough to guarantee that anytime soon. Using the latest Opus for literally everything is just a huge waste of effort.
Waste of effort... of Opus? If "Opus effort" is cheaper, than dev hours managing yourself more dumb/effective model, what is the point?
Re: Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
#55I find it odd that none of OpenAI models was used in comparison, but used Z GLM 5.1. Is Z (GLM 5.1) really that good? It is crushing Opus 4.5 in these benchmarks, if that is true, I would have expected to read many articles on HN on how people flocked CC and Codex to use it.
GLM-5 is good, like really good. Especially if you take pricing into consideration. I paid 7$ for 3 months. And I get more usage than CC. They have difficulty supplying their users with capacity, but in an email they pointed out that they are aware of it. During peak hours, I experience degraded performance. But I am on their lowest tier subscription, so I understand if my demand is not prioritized during those hours…
Where are you getting 3 months for $7?
Re: Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
#56Nowadays, I'm working on a realtime path tracer where you need proper understanding of microfacet reflection models, PDFs, (multiple) importance sampling, ReSTIR, etc.. Saying that mine is a somewhat specific use case. And I use Claude, Gemini, GLM, Qwen to double check my math, my code and to get practical information to make my path tracer more efficient. Claude and Gemini failed me more than a couple of times with…
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Re: Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
#57Nowadays, I'm working on a realtime path tracer where you need proper understanding of microfacet reflection models, PDFs, (multiple) importance sampling, ReSTIR, etc.. Saying that mine is a somewhat specific use case. And I use Claude, Gemini, GLM, Qwen to double check my math, my code and to get practical information to make my path tracer more efficient. Claude and Gemini failed me more than a couple of times with…
How "social" does Quen feel? The way I am using LLMs for coding makes this actually the most important aspect by now. Claude 4.6 felt like a nice knowledgeable coworker who shared his thinking while solving problems. Claude 4.7 is the difficult anti-social guy who jumps ahead instead of actually answering your questions and does not like to talk to people in general. How are Qwen's social skills?
Qwen feels like wise Chinese philosopher. Talks in very short elegant sentences, but does very solid work.
Re: Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
#58The way to develop in this space seems to be to give away free stuff, get your name out there, then make everything proprietary. I hope they still continue releasing open weights. The day no one releases open weights is a sad day for humanity. Normal people won’t own their own compute if that ever happens.
I'm a little more optimistic than that. I suspect that the open-weight models we already have are going to be enough to support incremental development of new ones, using reasonably-accessible levels of compute.
The idea that every new foundation model needs to be pretrained from scratch, using warehouses of GPUs to crunch the same 50 terabytes of data from the same original dumps of Common Crawl and various Russian pirate sites, is hard to justify on an intuitive basis. I think the hard work has already been done. We just don't know how to leverage it properly yet.
Re: Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
#59With them comparing to Opus 4.5, I find it hard to take some of these in good faith. Opus 4.7 is new, so I don't expect that, but Opus 4.6 has been out for quite some time.
When Sonnet 4.6 was released, I switchmed my default from Opus to Sonnet because it was about en par with Opus 4.5. While 4.6 and 4.7 are "better", the leap is too small for most tasks for me to need it, and so reducing cost is now a valid reason to stay at that level. If even cheaper models start reaching that level (GLM 5.1 is also close enough that I'm using it at lot), that's a big deal, and a totally valid reaso…
Wow I couldn't disagree more.
For me, Opus 4.5 and 4.6 feel so different compared to sonnet.
Maybe I'm lazy or something but sonnet is much worse in my experience at inferring intent correctly if I've left any ambiguity.
That effect is super compounding.
Re: Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
#60The way to develop in this space seems to be to give away free stuff, get your name out there, then make everything proprietary. I hope they still continue releasing open weights. The day no one releases open weights is a sad day for humanity. Normal people won’t own their own compute if that ever happens.
Any reason for them to do this other than altruism? I don’t think this can be regulated.
Bake ads into them.