Comment by kragen

Comment by kragen a day ago

8 replies

What has your experience vibecoding with Qwen on Debian been like so far? What tooling and approaches have you found to work best?

protocolture a day ago

I use it on Windows, I am just loosely aware that I could run it on debian if I wished. I use 7b and its roughly as useful as GPT 3.5. I dont have any tools linked to it yet.

  • kragen a day ago

    Does that mean "pretty useful" or "a total waste of time"? I never got much useful code out of GPT 3.5.

    • protocolture 6 hours ago

      3.5 was all about context window management. The second you hit that wall it became useless. I would either chunk the problem into smaller pieces or rollover my context every hour or so and it worked a treat.

      The second it started dropping context it was hilariously unreliable. It would just, rewrite the entire function or drop elements we hadnt discussed for a while.

brazukadev a day ago

I'm implementing an MCP client using Qwen3 4B and its tool call capabilities are impressive! I'm sure it will only improve and the 30B is probably already much better.