• by andrewfromx on 6/3/2025, 3:02:35 AM

    Quality Comparison (Rough Rankings)

    Tier 1 - Frontier Models:

    Claude Code 3.7 - Excellent reasoning, context understanding, complex refactoring

    GPT-4o with o3 - Outstanding at complex logic, multi-step planning

    Aider + Gemini 2.5 - Very strong code generation and modification

    Tier 2 - Good Local Models:

    CodeLlama 70B - Decent but requires significant hardware

    Llama 3.2 70B - Good general reasoning, okay at code

    Tier 3 - Practical Local Models:

    CodeLlama 13B - Basic code understanding, simple tasks

    Llama 3.2 7B/13B - Limited coding ability, frequent errors

    Tier 4 - Fast Local Models:

    Llama 3.2 3B - Very basic, often produces buggy code