Gemma 4
IS good, I've literally had it get a thing right that Opus 4.7 missed, the edges are ragged and I'm reliably finding usecases where it's basically equivalent. Ultimately the metric is "what can I
RELY on it to do". Opus definitely knows a lot more and can sometimes do much more complex tasks, but especially when you're good about feeding the context Gemma is amazing. The difference between the sets of things I
trust the two models to do is surprisingly small. I've had some insanely good runs recently working on my personal tooling as well as random projects. The first local model that can reliably left to implement features in agentic mode on non-trivial projects.
https://thot-experiment.github.io/gradient-gemma4-31b/
This is a relatively complex piece of tooling built entirely by Gemma 4 inside OpenCode where I manually intervened maybe only 4 times over the course of a few hours.
running Q6_K_XL, 128k context @ q8 ~ 800tok/s read 16tok/sec write
eagerly awaiting turboquant and MTP in llama.cpp, should take me to 256k and 25-30tok/s if the rumors are true
https://thot-experiment.github.io/gradient-gemma4-31b/
This is a relatively complex piece of tooling built entirely by Gemma 4 inside OpenCode where I manually intervened maybe only 4 times over the course of a few hours.
running Q6_K_XL, 128k context @ q8 ~ 800tok/s read 16tok/sec write
eagerly awaiting turboquant and MTP in llama.cpp, should take me to 256k and 25-30tok/s if the rumors are true