I tried the new qwen model in Codex CLI and in Roo Code and I found it to be pretty bad. For instance I told it I wanted a new vite app and it just started writing all the files from scratch (which didn’t work) rather than using the vite CLI tool.
Is there a better agentic coding harness people are using for these models? Based on my experience I can definitely believe the claims that these models are overfit to Evals and not broadly capable.
Thinking about what Jony Ive said about “owning the unintended consequence” of making screens ubiquitous, and how a voice controlled, completely integrated service could be that new computing paradigm Sam was talking about when he said “ You don’t get a new computing paradigm very often. There have been like only two in the last 50 years. … Let yourself be happy and surprised. It really is worth the wait.”
I suspect we’ll see stronger voice support, and deeper app integrations in the future. This is OpenAI dipping their toe in the water of the integrations part of the future Sam and Jony are imagining.
I recently discovered and have been fairly happy with PixelLab - an AI pixel art generator. I feel like they have a ways to go in features and UX, but it shows promise.