IS LLAMA REALLY AS BAD AS PEOPLE SAY? I PUT META'S AI TO THE TEST

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

Meta's Llama 3.2 1B model is a useful, lightweight coding assistant for development work. It's not as bad as critics claim. However, it can't handle agentic coding and produces functional but imperfect code, constantly requiring manual fixes. Llama is best for simple projects like todo apps.