5.3 is certainly “better” than its flash variant, in my experience. I’ve moved on from both but eagerly await the next generation of each.

Better, in this context, is more capable with open ended work, planning, longer horizon “reasoning”. Flash is an absolute chad with a well defined task and accompanying guidance/guardrails/conventions provided. But not even close when it needs to deviate, runs into a “blocker” and has to reason its way out.

Personally I find GLM-5.3 to be smart enough to be my daily driver, writing code, doing investigations, etc., including multi-codebase changes and finding the relevant documentation/supporting code for itself so I don't have to explain everything. It's fast (depending on your inference provider), cheap, and smart enough.

I find the full-size 5.3 is smart enough to avoid all the small-model problems, while GLM-5.3-Flash definitely starts showing its limits any time the task at hand is poorly defined. 5.3-Flash can often manage even complicated tasks, but the error rate (in terms of bad decisions, misunderstandings, etc) starts creeping up and the time wasted (or the risk thereof) gets high enough that it's worth just paying for the bigger model.

I do wish the bigger model could use vision though- that's currently limited to the flash model (presumably because it came out later, when they had figured out their vision training pipeline. Hopefully later releases will include it.)

You’re not going to get the same token throughout with the pro 6000 over pcie. You’re paying for speed and bandwidth.

That says more about the companies and fields you chose to work in than software engineers as a whole

Or perhaps they are referring to more kinds of engineers. Security engineers, IT engineers, ops engineers, and so on. They are more likely to have the kinds of requirements that he's referring to.

Presumably some organizations are able to contain the rapacious software engineer. In those organizations, the software engineer is better able to offer this. As it happens, though, almost all of those would rather use ZDR Claude over this kind of thing just because of the BCDR issues etc.

Presumably they don't and op does. I think the engineers are complaining they want LLMs and op is stuck handing data over to a 3rd party or denying them access. This would be the compromise (self hosted LLM)

Because the companies they work for take their NDA's, compliance and other requirements as must haves rather than optional.

My team does. It’s an important constraint. Do your software developers routinely ignore critical requirements?

Is suspect major providers will or already provide service of deploying their models on clients hardware, if bill is large enough.

What is the median salary for a senior sweng at faang?