[user43928]

I am forced to use Qwen 3.6 27b at work and found it next to useless. I might as well do all the work manually rather than having it implement another mess or get the debugging entirely wrong.

It feels like anything less than Sonnet is just a waste of time, apart from use as a smarter search function.

It also strikes me as strange that you would mention Codex for UI polish, as it's notoriously bad at UI, and far behind Claude Opus. Altman specifically posted that they are working to improve this for the next model release.

[sejje]

It might be good at analysis & review, writing documentation, git commits, etc--even if it's not good at coding.

All the drudgery.

[user43928]

Bad AI written documentation and commits are not great, particularly when you work in a team.

I almost find it offensive when colleagues open a MR with an obvious slop description that's frequently inaccurate.

That said, I find AI useful for a lot of drudgery like resolving merge conflicts or splitting changes out into separate MRs.

Particularly with the latter I had issues with small models, they butchered the changes I wanted moved. Not even on the second attempt did GPT 5.4 mini manage to move 10-20 lines to another file without modifying them in the process.