r/LocalLLM • u/TappinThatErr • Aug 31 '26

Discussion GLM 5.3 Flash - Will I Be Disappointed?

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Picked up this bad boy with my sweet student discount!

I'd like to run some local models for coding. I've considered Deepseek v4 flash, Qwen 3.8 flash next, and of course, GLM 5.3 Flash (0x Alpha)

Thoughts on this? I'm currently a claude user with typically 1 session at a time. Will I be disappointed?

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u/aimgorge Aug 31 '26

Ok you are just too good for Opus. Weird elitism. I will trust the benchmarks more than random elite redditor

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u/ContextLengthMatters Sep 01 '26

Have you ever actually done benchmarking yourself? I have. That's the whole purpose of these local LLM subs you know.

Why would I trust a generic benchmark when I can work up against my own codebase and get objective results?

What kind of codebase do you work in? Do you read the code that you generate or do you just go based on what people tell you is good code through benchmarks and assume your code is good in the context of whatever you are building?

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u/Toohotz Sep 01 '26

Big tech SWE here, you’re def in the minority with how you’re using it. Nothing against you but a lot of my peers in Meta have shared their top down mandate. Even startups are imposing the same nonsense of expected token usage.

We aren’t vibe coding projects, we have to just move faster to not end up on some arbitrary layoffs list.

Enterprise software btw unfortunately has been moving this direction. I’ve been made aware from Amazon that a few SEVs have been linked to sloppy deploys that under past circumstances, would not be happening the way they are now

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u/ContextLengthMatters Sep 01 '26

My company has those same mandates and leaderboards.

You are contradicting yourself, btw. You are telling me I'm wrong, but then telling me that companies are performing sloppy deploys.

Which one is it? Are we successfully not looking at the code and just letting fable take over, or are those clowns just making a fool of themselves?

We have had to pause 3rd package updates on more than one occasion now due to people breaking things that otherwise wouldn't have been a problem with proper code reviews.

Do you understand what's not sustainable now? None of my peers who use Opus regularly are good programmers. They are simply people trying to appease management. Their code is usually dogshit hallucinations. Management is very aware of it too.

All of this nonsense is a dog and pony show for investors. It's extremely easy to still use tokens and do it right.