Ling 3.0 Flash First Test – A Surprisingly GOOD Coding Model!
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Bijan Bowen
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Bijan Bowen
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Why it matters
Independent hands-on testing of a new coding model, which is how engineers decide whether it belongs in their stack.
Key quotes
“it is the perfect size for unified memory systems like the DGX Spark, Strix Halo, or Mac Studio, or Apple silicon systems with 128 gigs of RAM”
Bijan Bowen
“This is better than some much larger models I've seen attempting this task.”
Bijan Bowen
“It will find there's some issues in it that it wants to fix. It will try a couple of times and be like, "This isn't going too well. I'm just going to rewrite the entire thing from scratch."”
Bijan Bowen
“context used up right there, 63% of the 256K, and it was still competently fixing things”
Bijan Bowen
“all of these results are simple but foundationally they actually seem to be somewhat competent and together”
