The new local coding LLM's are pretty decent and a huge jump from the behemoths of the past

Explain Like I'm Normal

A developer tested small local models like Qwen 2.5 7B and 27B against a custom graphics language they couldn't have seen in training. The results showed that these 'tiny' models actually outperformed massive closed-source models in cold coding and syntax reasoning. This suggests that parameter efficiency in reasoning is skyrocketing, making expensive API calls increasingly redundant for specialized coding tasks.