Yes
Nothing that blows away the models from OpenAI and Anthropic, but solidly good enough to get it done
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Helped: Open weights model capability for routine backend tasks
… I've been using GLM 5.2 at my day job (mostly Rust backend work ATM). Nothing that blows away the models from OpenAI and Anthropic, but solidly good enough to get it done. A lot of people have experienced this and the fact that an open weights model can do so is where most of the excitement comes from. …