> Unless you are trying to prove some hard math, or writing extremely complex code, for general coding tasks (which represent 90% of code out there) 27B-Q6_K is more than enough. Q4 does it well too, but might need a few more iterations.
99% of the time, I'm not. But if it cannot reasonably write a basic CLI for transforming data without properly following a ~1K token long system prompt to the letter, then waste my time on it?
"Ah yes, I forgot about part X" or "I misunderstood the intent of Y" are so frequent compared to SOTA models, that it's hard to justify relying on it, even though I'm able to run it pretty much 24/7 at home, if it just was intelligent enough to actually make sense to do so.