This is not my experience at all. Even the Nous Research guys have stated that "Qwen3.6-27B is the canonical local model to use Hermes Agent with" [https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sz2y76/ama_wit...]. I am finding the same when used with Pi and OpenCode.
I'm talking about automation generally, not agent loops.
E.g. prompt A to achieve X, output in format Y. Use Y to do something in prompt B.
Agentic loops will underperform deterministic control flow pipelines (with non-determinism constrained to LLM calls).
Agents are more general, which is the main advantage. But inherently a more general solution will waste context on unnecessary reasoning.
Try asking the smaller Qwen models to output a JSON in a specific format. It basically can't do it consistently with a moderately sized prompt unless you constrain the token generation via GGML or are extremely repetitive and specific about it. (Thinking disabled)
Gemma 4 will do it correctly pretty much 100% of the time. (Thinking disabled)
Applies to other rule following as well in my experience.
Qwen may be better at toolcalling and certainly probably codegen.
It seems to me Google explicitly designed Gemma for edge device automation, and didn't fine tune for agentic or coding use cases.
The project's README mentions that it uses tiktoken[0], which is a separate project created by OpenAI.
tiktoken downloads token models the first time you use them, but it does not mention that. It does cache the models, so you shouldn't see more of those connections, if I'm understanding the code correctly.
I built a site that saves time by summarizing YouTube videos or news articles by simply inputting the URL. The tool preserves the original context, allowing users to ask follow-up questions.
I'd like to continue building fun projects like this until I find a market. I work in Phase 1 clinical trials and the end goal would be to implement some of these efficiencies into health technologies.
While inside China, it is virtually impossible to work in any capacity, in any field, without using WeChat.
Outside China, it is the most reliable means of communication to people without access to unrestricted internet. This has become even more difficult within the past year with the blocking of Shadowsocks proxies. You are unlikely to have friends with the ability or knowledge to install v2ray+vmess+websocket+tls for a reliable, unrestricted connection.
Your next best option is Facetime/iMessage, in my experience.
I am so happy Jitsi exists. My friends and I have a room that we regularly pop into to say hi or play games together.
The mobile app I downloaded through F-Droid works incredibly well, and for those of you Firefox users who aren't having the best experience, I recommend using the Electron desktop app [https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases].
I've been using the Jitsi Electron app in conjunction with OBS + the VirtualCam plugin to share games, videos and my desktop. Hopefully I can convert more Zoom users.
i have it complete tasks in the background as i work on other things.
for comparison, my 3090 runs it at about 60 t/s.