Comment by mark_l_watson

There are several general types of tasks that a Gemma 4 12B class model works for me, including: 1) design a large project composed of small libraries that can be coded and tested in isolation. 2) clean up old coding projects: add README files, comment code, show an example of using a new API and have it update API use, etc.

All small-scale stuff. For large integrated projects I am finding DeepSeek v4 Pro commercial API to be very inexpensive and helps me produce good results.