3.8-27B has ruined 3.5/3.6-35B’s for me. It’s just *absurdly* superior.

Applied science work, from workflow design, data pipeline, results analysis, article/reports writing and data publishing online. 5 projects I did in the past replicated from start to finish. 3x to 4x more total wall time. Yes, HUGE toll on how much you can do in a day if this was the only model you could use in your laptop. But oh my…the quality of that thing. The stupid level of attention to detail. I have the Z.ai api, so I can compare it with 5.3 and 5.3-flash: The gap between 5.3 (flash and regular) and 3.8-27B is much less, smaller when not plain tiny, than the gap between 3.8-27B and any