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by daemonologist 60 days ago
Not that I'm aware of. It's kind of like building a PC or a bicycle - you're putting mostly-standardized parts together rather than starting from first principles, but there are so many permutations that you can either use a single known-good configuration or immerse yourself in forums and tinker until you can fit things together yourself. Plus both the inference engines and models are of course moving really fast.

I use Opus 4.7 in Claude Code lol, plus Zed (as a text editor, not a harness). Open-weights models that I can run are for me not useful for multi-turn ("agentic") tasks. I do use Qwen 3.6 for one-off tasks like "write a function to pretty-print this weird data structure" or "explain this config file," and Gemma 4 26B for non-coding tasks like "create a timestamped table of contents from this podcast transcript."