DeepSeek Harness got a lot of people excited, but I used it once and didn't keep going; Qwen3.8 27B's capabilities have taken off, but I haven't deployed it locally either. Weighing the urge for new things against the need for stability, OpenCode + Paseo + OpenViking is already smooth enough. Anything new that doesn't offer real, controllable, reliable help is just noise.

Qwen3 is really fast — 0.2 seconds to first token, 55 TPS, more than 220% faster than the previous QwQ-32B...

It's Chinese New Year, and everyone is talking about DeepSeek. Laurel wants to play "Who's the Spy" but can never round up enough people, so I built an AI-powered "Who's the Spy" game bot that calls an LLM to generate character descriptions and voting strategies — but I ran into problems like unstable model output and formatting errors. After tweaking the model and the prompts over and over, I finally got the basic functionality working, and the whole process was full of funny mistakes and challenges.