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Beating or comparable to Opus 4.6 in benchmarks. Opus 4.6 was released in February, 2026. So if we still want to talk about a "6 month difference" between Chinese and American AI, the sentence should now be: Chinese (small model) AI is 6 months behind American (largest model) AI.

Given that glimmer only caught up-ish to 3.6 how far behind is American (largest model) to American (largest model) ?

Re: Qwen 3.8 27B

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I never install this stuff manually anymore. Just tell your LLM of choice to download model X from URL Y, build the latest inference engine of choice E, and then create batch files or shell scripts to run instruct and/or reasoning models in accordance with instructions at URL Z.

Promise I'm not being flippant or rude, but why not ask it to write something like a parameterized script to do the same thing for you ?

Laziness, primarily. Plus, no two models are exactly alike, and some have different instructions in their model card or on the HF page.

Re: Qwen 3.8 27B

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The $1500 Intel B70 with 32GB of VRAM can run this model at max context with good performance, btw. If you don't want to drop $5-10k for running DeepSeek this is your best budget option for local refactor/small scale dev help

I wonder how this would stack up against 4x RTX 3060, assuming you have the physical room for them.

Since the 3060s would have to communicate constantly using pcie, I think I'd go with intel

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what --no-context-shift is for ?

"--context-shift, --no-context-shift ... whether to use context shift on infinite text generation (default: disabled)" From: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/tools/serv...

That is obvious. Less obvious is what context shifting does and whether you want it or not.

Re: Qwen 3.8 27B

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The default reasoning is set to 'xhigh', if you want to compare with the past or reduce the time (if you can take the hit in output quality) then you can pick 'high' or 'medium' as well.

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What kind of things you only get with a larger model?

IME using 5.6 Luna and DS V4 Flash, I notice that although they are excellent at programming, even Opus-like in the way they try to debug, the thing they are worst at is inferring user intent and making good decisions with little information. They are absolutely terrible at that, will misinterpret small wording ambiguities. I suspect that's an ability you can't add with RL training, that it requires the depth of unde…

So add a pre-ingestion agent to your Pi Coding Agent subagent repertoire, problem solved.

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Lol at that command. Why is this stuff so hard to run locally? I've spent a few days trying to figure it all out and haven't been able to. LM Studio doesn't work behind proxies. Ollama is confusing and doesn't seem to support Qwen3? And Llama.cpp is your command. I just want to run ` ` with some default parameters set and for it to run locally.

I'll actually defend you on this one, but not only the command, that's more of a fine tuning option. On the hugging face link for example, there's no flat 'download' area. It's completely unintuitive for people to know how to use it. Reminds me of my first time trying to make sense of torrents when they first arrived. There are some clients that will index the models and allow you to do that but I'm no expert, I've u…

Official llama.cpp releases ship with huggingface support. If you don't want to download it yourself, you can just use the `repo/model:quant` convention and it will handle downloading locally for you.

Re: Qwen 3.8 27B

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People will claim it's not comparable to Opus despite it beating the score. I'm not sure I disagree, but I'm also unsure whether I care. Most new models nowadays are "good enough". I cannot complain because I'd rather spend that time improving my prompts and docs. Opus might be a _slight bit better_ at picking up vague hints, but it's also extremely expensive, and I hit the 5 hour limit way too quick. I care a lot ab…

You should check out Grok, it's quite a good deal from the Cursor subscription side but it's cheap even by API prices.

I think it's very clear that someone who has checked out all the models but the one that called itself mechahitler and is explicitly being fine tuned to support far-right politics is making the choice for reasons other than performance and cost. It's not like all the other models even had plausible claims to those metrics.

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Absolutely the best pelican I've seen from a model that runs on my laptop: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=ht... Bicycle is the right shape. Pelican beak is excellent. Nice background. Most importantly, the pelican has one leg on each side of the bicycle - that's very rare. (No chain on this bicycle though - in the reasoning trace it says "already chainstay... skip chain detail; maybe a smal…

For anyone who followed yesterday's Gemini 3.7 Flash pelican which rendered in Safari but not in Firefox or Chrome... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289112#49290012 . - that turned out to be my fault, not the model. My SVG rendering software was stripping some attributes. Here's the Gemini 3.7 Flash pelicans in the fixed renderer: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer.html#u...

Damn That's very good
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