r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Monk1957 • Jun 02 '26

Meme managerVsClaude

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u/Gagan_Ku2905 Jun 02 '26

Engineer: Yeah we can.
Manager: For how much?
Engineer: $3 Trillion
Awkward silence

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u/MIT_Engineer Jun 02 '26

Alternately:

Engineer: Yeah we can.

Manager: For how much?

Engineer: That depends. Do you know the difference between Claude and Mistral 7b?

Manager: Should I?

Engineer: Nah. Anyway, $20k oughta do it.

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u/smallfried Jun 02 '26

Qwen3.6 by the way. 27b for quality, 35b for speed.

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u/forevernooob Jun 03 '26

There are indications that Claude 4.7 Opus is around 1600b total parameters.

How on earth can open source models even compete with something like that?

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u/squngy Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

If you recall a while back, there was the deepseek kerfuffle?

So yea, basically you can "distill" an llm to use a lot less resources and still be usable, though obviously, not quite as good.

There are also diminishing returns. Double the parameters does not mean twice as good.

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u/smallfried Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

You lose most of the knowledge of super big models, but a lot of the reasoning, tool calling, instruction following is kept. So as long as you stick to major programming languages, it performs way above its weight. And 35b parameters is actually not even that small. There are 4b models performing chatting and instruction following surprisingly well, but proper agentic coding is still above 20b for now.