The few tests I ran were by no means comprehensive, but while kimi felt like the real deal qwen seems a bit of a benchmark princess.

Qwen3.6 is still the best agentic open weight LLM around 30b params (Gemma isn’t very good at agentic execution).

I also find the model is a lot more predictable and less “glitchy” when made to think in Chinese. You can do this in the system prompt.

> Gemma isn’t very good at agentic execution

I had no issues with it for C++ development with https://pi.dev. I'm yet to try it with Zed Editor. I don't rely on agents too much. However, I used it on Chromium's codebase to research some functionalities, let's say for searching. Requests like: check my last commit and do the same for SetterA and SetterB; it also ran without any errors.

Apparently agentic performance in Gemma was improved recently: https://x.com/googlegemma/status/2077449152062247219

Too little too late imo

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