Comment by Implicated
8 hours ago
> I did not personally test the open weight models beyond the old Qwen 3.6 27B, which produced unusably bad results for me.
So you don't have much perspective on things, it seems. Let me introduce you to the GLM 5.2 and then 5.3/5.3 flash series of... "oh, wow, I should have bought some RTX PRO 6000's while they were 'cheap'" stage of progression.
As someone carrying multiple max subscriptions to both claude and codex - primary workhorse is glm 5.3 flash running on rented GPUs for less than a latte/hr.
I also found qwen 3.6 27B nearly useless for my own needs. DS4 flash 0731 and then 4.1 have been nearly as eye opening as glm 5.3 flash, but have their own warts.
Have you tried Qwen 3.8 Flash Next? You can run it on one spark with reasonable context sizes at about 30 tps, and it's as good as DS Flash 0731. Maybe even a tie with GLM 5.3, though like everything it depends on the use case.
Why use GLM 5.3 Flash when you also have access to Astra, Sol, Fable?
Or I guess the other way around, if GLM 5.3 Flash is so good, why Claude and Codex?
Increasingly stingy usage limits on the subscriptions, regardless of tier.
All american models refuse to help me design nuclear weapons in Nuclear Design Bureau or to work on my cybersecurity projects.
Try DS4.1 Flash. It's another eye-opener. If you run it in Claude Code, it's easy to forget you're not actually talking to a high-end Opus model.