alt Hacker NewsI asked it to implement the simplest todo in ghostty codebase and it failed badly - kept going in circles fixing one compile error and introducing another. Qwen 3.8 was slower (40 tok/s compared to 75) but did get it done.
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ghboo0927 • today at 3:44 AM
That's not surprising. Even Liquid's own documentation states that coding isn't this model's strong suit. Its strength lies in tool calling.
sourweasel • today at 2:51 AM
Have you tried Gemma-4 26BA4B? I feel like it is underrated for tasks like that, but maybe I've just been lucky with my use cases.
samstevens • today at 3:27 AM
in my experience it's stronger for terminal use, like chaining bash calls, monitoring background tasks, etc. rather than for straight up coding/swe work. Good with web search and file search rather than just editing software.
> Qwen 3.8 was slower
Is that Qwen 3.8 27B? Because yes, you'd expect a plain 27B model to be better than a 24B-A2B MoE model all else being equal.
(All else isn't equal though of course - Qwen models are very, very good at coding)
Gemma-4 26BA4B would be a more similar comparison.