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0 pointsintothemild11d ago0 comments

Qwen3.5 really is great.

But the biggest thing is going to be context. Whilst a 10gb card can run a 9b model with some context .. for coding you really want a lot of context.

So if paying 200 a year for 1T in context, vs your 32k context.. that's the thing I see as being the driver.

Personally ive found great success with using open code, having Opus as my plan agent, and omnicoder-9b as my build agent.

Get opus to plan, switch to omnicoder to build, switch back to opus to review. Etc etc.

Works great.

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yunwal9d ago

> for coding you really want a lot of context

After having gone all-in on LLM agents for a while, I'm not so sure anymore. An LLM with lots of context can sometimes generate more accurate code, but it can also hide decision-making from you, the person who actually has to maintain that code. If the LLM pulls in 1000 files to make a decision, that's no longer a decision that you can understand.

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