The incredible thing is that Google just dropped a model that outperforms o1 with reasoning AND sonnet for coding. I need to test this thing out better, but so far I am impressed.

I honestly think that Gemini 2.5 is on a league of its own. None of the other models, at least when it comes to programming, can compete (currently).

Great article from @arslan.io pretty much summarizing why AI is now absolutely relevant for software engineers.

Just one minor note: try also aider.chat, it rocks and integrates perfectly with nvim.

So with QwQ and Gemma 3 we are finally seeing models <= 32B parameters that can be used for non trivial tasks. Far from SOTA? Yes. But far from the old generation of smaller models as well.

Gemma3 is surprisingly good. Local models starts to look like viable alternatives, super exciting.