Yeah - I’ve been playing around more with the Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct MoE model and it’s still quite… Meh. I’ve been using llama.cpp and I’ve tried a bunch of tuning. It works and performs well enough (15t/s) but the output is just garbage. I can do some simple coding but I’m finding I’m fighting with it more than if I just wrote the code myself. Maybe I just have standards that are too high. Claude Opus 3.7 is just in an entirely different league…
Also have preserve thinking on, it helps it stay consistent in multi turn work.
Which model version you’re using can also affect results, usually unsloth’s ones are good.
With all that said, it’s of course a small model so it’s not a super coder. The 27b is better (I’d guess 25-35% better), but of course still a small model so…
So it’ll maybe not be good enough still, but should give it the chance to let it do the best it can :)
Try qwen3.6-35b-a3b with a lightweight harness like pi.dev
Having it be able to run commands and try to compile or run the code and see the output helps especially on the “doesn’t compile” part of things
Yeah - I’ve been playing around more with the Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct MoE model and it’s still quite… Meh. I’ve been using llama.cpp and I’ve tried a bunch of tuning. It works and performs well enough (15t/s) but the output is just garbage. I can do some simple coding but I’m finding I’m fighting with it more than if I just wrote the code myself. Maybe I just have standards that are too high. Claude Opus 3.7 is just in an entirely different league…
When you run it, do you use unsloth’s recommended settings for coding?
https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.6
Also have preserve thinking on, it helps it stay consistent in multi turn work.
Which model version you’re using can also affect results, usually unsloth’s ones are good.
With all that said, it’s of course a small model so it’s not a super coder. The 27b is better (I’d guess 25-35% better), but of course still a small model so…
So it’ll maybe not be good enough still, but should give it the chance to let it do the best it can :)