I did, but in almost everything I tried even qwen3.5 was better, and 3.6 was a huge step up.

Good to know, did you also try non-coding or is that what you use it for? For tasks unrelated to coding we've generally preferred Gemma.

So far I have done coding projects only, but I have some ideas for some non-coding agent projects in the future, so I'll give Gemma another shot