Qwen3 family (and the R1 qwen3-8b distill) is #1 in programming and reasoning.
However it's heavily censored on political topics because of its Chinese origin. For world knowledge, I'd recommend Gemma3.
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The pace of change is mind boggling. Not only for the models but even the tools to put them to use. Routers, tools, MCP, streaming libraries, SDKs...
Do you have any advice for someone who is interested, developing alone and not surrounded by coworkers or meetups who wants to be able to do discovery and stay up to date?