My issue with Gemma 4 is that any task fails to complete after any compaction event. It often ends up in a loop that keeps compacting and showing the same compaction output.
Qwen3.8-27B-IQ4_XS was a massive improvement. It's tasks survive compaction and actually get completed.
I switched to Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL for better performance and its working just as well.
Gemma4 screwed up a proxmox install I had. I booted to a SystemRescue install and tried to get gemma4 to fix it. It just could not do it and kept having issues where it dropped a linux command into the local powershell because it did not ssh into systemRescue or killed the ssh connection somehow so the text landed on the wrong system.
I told qwen3.8 to investigate fixing the partition. It said information was lost, but displayed enough info that it was easy to tell it was right. I told it to install fresh proxmox and gave a short rundown on settings and partition sizes I wanted. It made a plan and told me I had to manually installed proxmox by booting the iso. I responded with something like "there are other ways to install promox without human interaction so use one of those". That was it. I woke up to the system having booted to a new proxmox install with my previous ssh keys restored and my existing zfs pool already mounted.
I don't see how any model that is limited to a single context window in a single session would be viable for coding. I want something that can manage the entire project and not just individual files or inline suggestions. I need to be able to feed it all the info I would use to make coding decisions and then have it at least make a working project that it can launch and test successfully. You want it to ask as many questions up front to enable continuous work without stopping for human input.
Gemma4 screwed up a proxmox install I had. I booted to a SystemRescue install and tried to get gemma4 to fix it. It just could not do it and kept having issues where it dropped a linux command into the local powershell because it did not ssh into systemRescue or killed the ssh connection somehow so the text landed on the wrong system.
I told qwen3.8 to investigate fixing the partition. It said information was lost, but displayed enough info that it was easy to tell it was right. I told it to install fresh proxmox and gave a short rundown on settings and partition sizes I wanted. It made a plan and told me I had to manually installed proxmox by booting the iso. I responded with something like "there are other ways to install promox without human interaction so use one of those". That was it. I woke up to the system having booted to a new proxmox install with my previous ssh keys restored and my existing zfs pool already mounted.
I don't see how any model that is limited to a single context window in a single session would be viable for coding. I want something that can manage the entire project and not just individual files or inline suggestions. I need to be able to feed it all the info I would use to make coding decisions and then have it at least make a working project that it can launch and test successfully. You want it to ask as many questions up front to enable continuous work without stopping for human input.