Qwen

Qwen is creative and holds up on long-running tasks. Anish Acharya describes Qwen as creative, a good storyteller and strong on long-horizon work. It ran for 4 or 5 hours to produce a 5-minute documentary about a Star Wars planet.

The documentary used MiniMax for the video and ElevenLabs for the audio, so Qwen was the coordinating model in a multi-tool pipeline. He contrasts it with GLM, which he calls precise and neurotic, with no vision.

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Build intuition for each model by shipping a project with it. Acharya makes something with every new model and treats that as how he learns what each one is good at. He picks a low-stakes project as a chassis, keeps adding to it, and uses the model as a tool rather than a goal.

His reasoning is that models have different shapes, such as Qwen being creative and GLM being precise, and those differences only show up through use. Quote: "I just make something with every model, and that's how I build my intuition."

Lenny's Podcast▶ 27:30