No, Qwen 27B Isn't Enough
A Hacker News thread said a 27 billion parameter model is all you need for real coding work. I’ve run that model against real codebases. It isn’t, and here’s the math on why.
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The best definition of pay I ever heard came from a Riot Games VP. It also explains why doing the senior job well quietly caps your own salary, and what to do about it in your next review.
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The job stopped being ‘fix it’ the day you took the title. Here’s how I spend the first three months running a technology org without torching my credibility in week one.
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Somebody always has an idea that turns into your team’s problem. Here’s how I make them prove it’s worth doing before a single line gets written.
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