I’ve been experimenting with Qwen 3.8 27B and I believe I can totally use it as my main coding model provided I have the hardware for the full context. I don’t need my model to be opus level. I need it to do the tasks I want it to do without being an overprotective nanny.
Reminds me of a discussion about how cyber implants would bring upon cyberpunk - a person who needs an implant asks themselves: What if I use my implant this way…
I was mostly highlighting the sheer cost of systematically exploring it. 60 agents doing something very narrow with a domain expert navigating the slop is already a high cost but I can see it being done more often in the near future since it just wasn’t possible a few years ago.
Ah, yeah that's a fair point. I was thinking it'd be something the labs themselves, or other companies with billions of dollars in funding, would tackle. The labs seemingly have the most to gain since such a system could be used for recursive self improvement.
If only datacenter developers started with the tax and power arrangements we wouldn’t be where we are.
If only the LLM-peddlers didn’t slurp up all tech supplies using VC money leaving regular people scraping up a small fortune for a heavily used DDR3 1GB stick, we wouldn’t be where we are.
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