there are now 3 open weight models that are reaching the quality of the closed ones (GLM-5.1, Kimi 2.6, Deepseek V4). There are two more that can write actually good code and small enough to run locally (Gemma 4, Qwen 3.6). This is not going away, no matter if OpenAI and Anthropic survive or not.
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@lain have a favorite that can fit in 24gb yet? I feel like staying up a little late and trying one
@harblinger gemma 4 26b-a4b, qwen 3.6 27b and if it fits / you use a smaller quantization, qwen3.6-35b-a3b. they all run well in lm studio, if you don't already have a system for running them
@lain cool thx 
I'll probably just do ollama + pi.dev https://docs.ollama.com/integrations/pi
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2@lain I'm impressed, it was able to write a (better?) kdenlive "earthquake" plugin than I got out of an old claude model when I first tested code generation
Still couldn't get it to be keyframable, not sure why yet
@harblinger the models are really getting better and more efficient, it's not just more compute and larger models.