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Qwen3, 8B parameter model, seems to be the most generally comprehensive model I can run on it, via the Alpaca flatpak.

(Though I should note that Alpaca just recently revamped how it works internally, as currently has a few bugs that resulted from this, that its dev is working out.)

Its not fast in terms of like a realtime back and forth conversation, but, it is pretty good at a lot of things, at least up to the conclusion of its training data set. So it works fairly well if you describe a scenario to it, and then ask it to mock up like you say, a complex regex term, or a moderately complex bash or python file.

You can also say like hey, I have a semi-thought out idea for an app or feature, or just a fairly complex function, outline a number of possible specific methods or mathematical algorithms we might be able to use to achive this, and it'll mock out a project outline, and then you can have it develop the smaller components singly... sometimes this works, sometimes it makes syntax or conceptual or logical errors.

It also generally works for refactoring a single script toward being either more modular or more monolithic, but when you have it try to consider how to refactor a complex project of many scripts, well you'll basically exceed its capacity to keep everything straight.

If you want a snappier though less comprehensive model, 3B parameter models are a good deal quicker, they'd probably be what you want for like, a relationship with a sycophant/airhead/confidently incorrect person, lol.