I didn't look at any of the code, but I had it build me a bunch of various visualization and tuning UIs. I was basically acting as a PM/TPM/QA engineer, and what I was able to do in a couple evenings is stuff that entire teams used to spend weeks on.
Agree. The pace of improvement (for coding tasks) from all Labs vying to catch up to the Big 3 (GDM, OAI, Ant) has been relentless.
So I asked my agent (I'm using some free agents that are pretty decent - Nemotron Ultra from OpenRouter and Big Pickle from OpenCode Zen) to build me an OpenCV classifier to try to read the digits.
I think, Meta's Muse Spark is also free to use, for now. I'd be interesting if you'd ever find yourself using that.
If I may: Did you find Big Pickle is better than Nemotron Ultra or vice versa? Which harness (or IDE) did you drive these models with?
I've been using OpenCode for hosted models, but pi-coder works better with the locally hosted models. I'm thinking of trying pi-coder in general because OpenCode doesn't handle retries as well as it could.
Big Pickle is really good, but I run out of my free OpenCode Zen quota pretty quickly. I used Claude a lot at work, and Big Pickle is right up there from what I've seen.
Nemotron Ultra on OpenRouter is nearly as good, but it's down a LOT, and it can sometimes be kinda dumb, and loves to gaslight me. I was arguing with it for a while yesterday because it was absolutely convinced it had fixed my bug and pushed to production, because it wasn't picking up on the issue I was describing, so clearly it was fixed!
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Amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Agree. The pace of improvement (for coding tasks) from all Labs vying to catch up to the Big 3 (GDM, OAI, Ant) has been relentless.
I think, Meta's Muse Spark is also free to use, for now. I'd be interesting if you'd ever find yourself using that.
If I may: Did you find Big Pickle is better than Nemotron Ultra or vice versa? Which harness (or IDE) did you drive these models with?
I've been using OpenCode for hosted models, but pi-coder works better with the locally hosted models. I'm thinking of trying pi-coder in general because OpenCode doesn't handle retries as well as it could.
Big Pickle is really good, but I run out of my free OpenCode Zen quota pretty quickly. I used Claude a lot at work, and Big Pickle is right up there from what I've seen.
Nemotron Ultra on OpenRouter is nearly as good, but it's down a LOT, and it can sometimes be kinda dumb, and loves to gaslight me. I was arguing with it for a while yesterday because it was absolutely convinced it had fixed my bug and pushed to production, because it wasn't picking up on the issue I was describing, so clearly it was fixed!