it absolutely is usable. Of course, on such codebases, forget about one-shotting or trusting it blindly or anything of the sort
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<20k LoC per project
In the thread “Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?”
Helped: Custom prompt, restrictive bwrap, restarting context.
Got in the way: Lags behind SOTA models, cannot one-shot.
… Can't compare it to SOTA or higher-requirements models on what I work on - policy. That said, on a bunch of test pieces - it obviously isn't gpt-5.5, it definitely lags behind k2.6/glm/ds4-pro, but it absolutely is usable. Of course, on such codebases, forget about one-shotting or trusting it blindly or anything of the sort - you ask it, guide it, restart the context from time to time to have a "fresh dice roll" and to keep the context small and clean, etc. Compared to anything smaller (incl. …