> ...and it'll be night and day.

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

> You really can't compare a model that's got trillions of parameters to a 27B one.

Parameter count doesn't matter much when coding. You don't need in-depth general knowledge or multilingual support in a coding model.

I often do need in-depth general knowledge in my coding model so that I don't have to explain domain specific logic to it every time and so that it can have some sense of good UX.