Mixed
But as soon as you ask them for non-trivial modifications and bugfixes, they _usually_ go deep into rationalized rabbit holes into nowhere
bityard on Hacker News
In the thread “Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation”, replying to this comment
Helped: Writing whole applications from scratch up to certain complexity.
Got in the way: Non-trivial modifications and bugfixes leading to rationalized rabbit holes.
… My experience is that all of the models seem to do a decent job of writing a whole application from scratch, up to a certain point of complexity. But as soon as you ask them for non-trivial modifications and bugfixes, they _usually_ go deep into rationalized rabbit holes into nowhere. I burned through a lot of credits to try them all and Gemini tended to work the best for the things I was doing. …