There was an interesting interview by MLST with a team doing well on ARC AGI 3 who are using Qwen 3.6 27B, and said that it's actually better at coding than the larger 3.6 35B.
I guess which of the smaller 3.8 models is best for coding will depend on which one they put the training effort into.
I guess which of the smaller 3.8 models is best for coding will depend on which one they put the training effort into.