points by Zambyte 2 days ago | 0 comments
> All of this is unreviewed vibe-coded slop that could be hazardous to your camera’s mental, emotional, or digital health. If you're uncomfortable with risk to your camera, please don't use it.
You don't care anyways. Actual engineering works "100%" fine with small models now. You should try it!
[–] jitl 2 days ago
as i said, i did try it. smaller models are not up to the task of deep reverse engineering work.
The best open weights models still had a lot of defects and very egregious mistakes to fix even after I provided a very well detailed Requirement/Design/ Technical Implementation plans.
Opus and Gemini 3.8 (and now Argon) did a significantly better job. So I've baseline using these two models to build this application. I now use Opus for design/review and Flash 3.8 for the code gen/implementation work.
I'm sure small models and even open big models are probably fine for many common small apps and such, but they aren't really able to perform the same across all use cases.