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The modern Qwen and DeepSeek models are like someone who is merely smart, but who has an alarmingly good work ethic
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Helped: Diligent open models performing well on complex engineering tasks.
Got in the way: Claude models giving glib answers instead of doing the work.
… Opus is often like a brilliant coworker who can't be bothered to do their job. The modern Qwen and DeepSeek models are like someone who is merely smart, but who has an alarmingly good work ethic. And I'm not just writing simple React CRUD GUIs. …