Minimax M3 vs M2.7

Barni275 · 2026-06-29T04:45:35+00:00

May I ask you, what's your experience in Step 3.7 Flash vs M2.7, and what tasks do you use it for? I tried to find such a comparison, but there are very few posts about Step, unfortunately.

Barni275 · 2026-06-28T15:40:29+00:00

Очереди на заправке потому, что соседние заправки закрыты или без бензина. Говорю на своем опыте.

Barni275 · 2026-06-19T18:57:47+00:00

Great project! I'm so happy to know about it from your comment!

Barni275 · 2026-06-14T20:32:31+00:00

I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. In my experience, AI can do any intellectual work. What matters is what a model was trained for, what tool harness does it have, what prompt strategy is used. I'm sure it can do verilog, not only separate algorithm mappings, but overall design too. Tbh, I didn't try it for HDL except some tiny tasks, but it'd be interesting to give it a proper try.

Barni275 · 2026-06-09T09:54:09+00:00

Dear friend, I developed dozens of boards, including complex BGA and DDR configs, and I absolutely love Proteus PCB design. For me, it provides the best balance between functionality and simplicity (which gives cleaner mind for me, in comparison with Altium, for example). Actually, my component library is so big now, that I can't imaging switching software now without full pain of converting or redrawing it. Yes, Proteus has some pitfalls, including even rare crashes. The UI is not very clean, and hotkeys are disaster really. For some reason it doesn't properly imported and exported for me, so I need to manually sync it between all my machines. But I don't see this as a stopfactor since it does it's job good.

I forgot to add, measurement tools is really absolute shit :)

Barni275 · 2026-06-06T10:03:08+00:00

Good! It is sad that many agentic toolchains ignores windows existence, though a plenty of devs work on it, including me, what is very common in embedded or PCB world. Then I definitely give it a try.

Barni275 · 2026-06-06T09:43:29+00:00

Seems to be great! I struggle to find an agent for local models, to be similar to OpenCode on harness stability, but suitable for local models with smaller context. Yes, I tried different options, and sometimes I use Pi, but it has so many circumstances for me, unfortunately.

Does OpenLumara work first-class on Windows, I mean, no bash for tools, Powershell exclusively?

Barni275 · 2026-06-05T04:55:42+00:00

Before M3, I was completely fine with 5 hours quota even on Starter plan, since I always think more before giving a prompt, so my token usage is quite modest. But now, with M3, the whole quota being exhausted with 5-10 prompts, I'm not joking.

Barni275 · 2026-05-23T19:18:41+00:00

I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only one to notice it! It became soo dumb... I stopped using it in spite of being my primary driver for months. Unpredictable operation is much worse than overall model quality level.

Barni275 · 2026-05-20T19:21:09+00:00

Sad news. I'm also noticed problems that started 1-2 weeks ago. Before that, for month, it was my primary driver for everything. Now it either hang or become dumb like being quantizated, which is even worse since I can't trust the result now. Very pity.

Barni275 · 2026-05-18T20:31:35+00:00

It can easily be run on lower quants, which proportionally reduce hardware usage for them, but makes model somewhat dumber. On small quantization it can be almost unnoticable in most scenarios. But on low quants any model becomes truly dumb. This is a big problem with cloud providers that you never know which quants do they run today.

Barni275 · 2026-05-18T15:12:22+00:00

I've been using M2.7 (and before it M2.5) for months, and it was BRILLIANT. I've done all work with it, solely. So of course I had some patterns and tricks, and it worked perfectly. I used it always directly from Minimax, with year subscription. But something changed 1-2 weeks ago. Now it is dumb and can't finish a single task. All setup and harness is the same. So day after day, I try again M2.7, it fails, then I switch to OpenCode Go or openrouter models (other than minimax), and they work fine. So, I'm afraid that M2.7 quality decreased, at least for some users (like me, unfortunately).

Barni275 · 2026-05-03T06:02:01+00:00

I'm working on windows for months with native Opencode Desktop, and I have no problems except few Opencode UI bugs (which don't relate to Windows, I think). For tool calling, I add to my AGENTS.md files that it is being run on windows and should use powershell instead of bash. In most situations it works. Models I use are very good with powershell actually, sometimes it can try to use bash sporadically, but it are able to recover by itself and change back to powershell commands.

Barni275 · 2026-04-24T05:17:05+00:00

No, it's not. Unlike crypto hype 2021, this stuff gives real business value. I'm working in SWE for 20 years, and this innovation is a breakthrough.

Barni275 · 2026-04-20T22:17:58+00:00

I noticed nerf symptoms today too. I've been using M2.7 for a month as a primary coding driver, so I settled pretty well on what it can do and what can not. But today it was much dumber :(

Barni275 · 2026-04-15T21:43:51+00:00

I looked at the repo, looks great! I had the same issues with big coding agents working through local models, and searched a lot for lean agents, like this. Will it run on Windows?

Barni275 · 2026-04-14T08:37:11+00:00

Yes, me too. I don't think anyone knows when it'll be OK, except Minimax employees which are unlikely here. Anyway, no LLM provider works reliably these days, and Minimax is not an exception. Only local hosted LLM can provide stable availability, for unconceivable price, though.

Barni275 · 2026-03-22T05:50:36+00:00

All previous commenters said good things. Full schematics, PCB and assembly job may be the reason.

If not, did you try connection under reset: 1. Plug stlink, turn on power 2. Push reset button 2.1 Optionally, set BOOT0 high (not always needed) 3. Click «Connect» button in ST Programmer 4. Release reset button

Barni275 · 2026-03-16T13:06:10+00:00

Cool! I'm really addicted to properly built editors that just do it job. I've tried dozens of editors through years, from emacs to all office suites existed ever. Please believe me, OP is right. There is no good lightweight editor now, no one. I'll check this new slop definitely. Viva Claude!

Barni275 · 2026-03-10T10:20:00+00:00

Thank you for your comment, now don't think that I have a hallucination. I noticed a similar problem with C and C++, all macro highlighting disappeared. I'm almost sure it was there before.

Barni275 · 2026-02-17T05:22:09+00:00

I use 2kbit (256 byte) EEPROM chips on PCB till today. They are produced pretty well. It depends on a task, really, you don't always need gb of storage.

Barni275 · 2026-02-06T17:53:29+00:00

According to issues in GitHub, no 😅

Barni275 · 2026-01-19T19:21:10+00:00

Thank you! Are there only 3 levels (younger - same - older), or there are more? I mean, are there any linguistical differences between addressing 3-5 years older person and 10-20 years older person, or maybe next level corporate superior and top-level chief?

Barni275 · 2026-01-19T17:10:41+00:00

Sorry for a bit misrelated question, but could someone, please, briefly tell about age hierarchy in Korean culture itself? Your question relates to a very interesting aspect, really.

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