Flash is pretty decent coder, but it should be paired with good planner and reviewer. I would pick astra low for planning and sol 6.1 medium for reviews.

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eikenberry 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What would you use if you wanted to stay (at least) open weight?

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verdverm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

qwen3.8, kimi3, kimi2.7, GLM-5.3 are all good families I use in my coding team

I'm mainly using flash varients, at least as the default, bump.up to stronger model as needed (less often these days)

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Geof25 3 hours ago | parent [-]

qwen3.8 27B or 2.4T? they are completely different models with completely different pricing

	▲	verdverm 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I use all the qwen! It's my favorite model family to interact with, it's prose is the best imo, it makes me laugh from time-to-time (like when it said it would "crib" some code from another project, lul) I currently have qwen-flash working on an NES emulator harness so qwen-little can play my first RPG (ff1) (tho I have used all the others I mentioned, happenstance I'm using qwen this iteration/task)

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esafak 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Deepseek 4.1 Flash and Mimo 2.6 Flash.

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esafak 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Flash is plenty good for planning and reviewing, for my needs. In fact, I use it for that because it's too slow for execution, despite the name.

edit: I subscribe to z.ai, I don't host.

	▲	jminnl 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> I use it for that because it's too slow for execution What kind of hardware and what particular quant?
	▲	gunalx 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Will agree on this. From z.ai i have found the non flash to have way more consistent performance.