all the latest and greatest LLMs, be it proprietary SaaS or open-weight focus on complex tasks like programming, math etc.

but for basic writing and document handling, do they still require such large models, or is a lightweight model that can run on your laptop or phone sufficient?

@cell i don't think so. gemma 4 and qwen should be fine for that.

@lain i mean i've been using those and the basic models from big providers (e.g. claude sonnet, gemini flash, gpt instant) for most of those "basic" tasks already

seems like a solved problem already if you're not architecting anything complex so i don't think alot of attention is directed at this sector anymore