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simonw 7 hours ago

I've been trying Ornith 1.0 35B, I'm pretty impressed with it: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/29/ornith/

dofm 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's the one I have loaded right now.

It got rather tangled up when I tried it with one of my coding tests, which is a simple wordpress plugin, but I frustrate the model by asking it to write code for older PHP, break WP coding conventions and use a rather bespoke method for arranging code in objects. So it is sort of a hybrid of a green field and brown field task; a bit muddy.

It did not do as well as Qwen 3.6 35B, but the way it worked through its thoughts was interesting.

TBH I struggled to understand what DeepReinforce are doing that is materially different; the explanation of their training technique goes over my head at this point.

jensC 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It is also available with Ollama now and I am equally impressed too.