Comment by noodletheworld

Having tried it.

Qwen is really good.

Also, generally, it makes sense. 8B models are generally not very good^.

That this 8B model is decent is impressive, but that it could perform on par with a good model 4 times as large is a daydream.

^ - To be polite. The small models + tool use for coding agents are almost universally ass. Proof: my personal experience. Ive tried many of them.