I Ran pi on Gemma 4 26B A4B via llama.cpp. Here Is What Broke First
On April 4, 2026, I ran pi against a local llama.cpp endpoint serving unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL. I wanted a clear answer to one question: has a quantized open model crossed the line from “cute local demo” to “serious enough to matter” for agentic coding? My answer is yes, but only if you are honest about where it breaks. This stack is already good enough to read local instructions, load skills, use tools, follow a plan, write files, run commands, and recover from some failures. It is not good enough to be trusted on precision-heavy work without hard validation. The first things to degrade were not general fluency or vibe. The first things to degrade were exactness, path resolution, layout arithmetic, and long-context responsiveness. ...