[meta] I wonder why people have such wildly different bar for what is "good" agentic coding?
In a way, it's absolutely amazing that we've went from "Playing 'Set a Timer' on Apple Music" intelligence to something that may pass the Turing Test, but in practical terms the small models are still far from what I'd call "good" for more than a tech demo.
To me, 7B models are just a fuzzy echo of Wikipedia. Gemma models at 4 bit are too clumsy to even reliably generate JSON for tool calls or copy a line of code to apply a patch.
Qwen needs so much detail and babysitting to stop it from doom looping or losing the plot, that the instructions that I need to give are usually longer than the code I end up keeping.
Is there some magic prompt that I don't know? Do other people just have a lot more patience, or way lower expectations?
In a way, it's absolutely amazing that we've went from "Playing 'Set a Timer' on Apple Music" intelligence to something that may pass the Turing Test, but in practical terms the small models are still far from what I'd call "good" for more than a tech demo.
To me, 7B models are just a fuzzy echo of Wikipedia. Gemma models at 4 bit are too clumsy to even reliably generate JSON for tool calls or copy a line of code to apply a patch.
Qwen needs so much detail and babysitting to stop it from doom looping or losing the plot, that the instructions that I need to give are usually longer than the code I end up keeping.
Is there some magic prompt that I don't know? Do other people just have a lot more patience, or way lower expectations?