Re:Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
by mark_l_watson on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:05AM
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I had odd Gemma 4 12B results: it was ‘almost excellent’ for writing code in a variety of languages if I was using a detailed one-shot prompt describing new code to write.
I had horrible luck with Gemma 4 12B with a variety of coding harnesses - but as usual Qwen 3.5 9B did OK.
EDIT: CORRECTION: I pulled a fresh copy of Gemma 4 12B and inference code and the tool use problems in my test harnesses are fixed. Gemma 4 12B is slow on my 16B MacBook Air, put produces OK results.
I had horrible luck with Gemma 4 12B with a variety of coding harnesses - but as usual Qwen 3.5 9B did OK.
EDIT: CORRECTION: I pulled a fresh copy of Gemma 4 12B and inference code and the tool use problems in my test harnesses are fixed. Gemma 4 12B is slow on my 16B MacBook Air, put produces OK results.