Great, I've been experimenting with OpenCode and running local 30B-A3B models on llama.cpp (4 bit) on a 32 GB GPU so there's plenty of VRAM left for 128k context. So far Qwen3-coder gives the me best results. Nemotron 3 Nano is supposed to benchmark better but it doesn't really show for the kind of work I throw at it, mostly "write tests for this and that method which are not covered yet". Will give this a try once someone has quantized it in ~4 bit GGUF.
Codex is notably higher quality but also has me waiting forever. Hopefully these small models get better and better, not just at benchmarks.
Codex is notably higher quality but also has me waiting forever. Hopefully these small models get better and better, not just at benchmarks.