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Inside Small LLM Coding Agents: Sub-8B Architecture

How 4–8B parameter models close the gap with GPT-4 on code tasks: the retrieval, fine-tuning, and inference architecture that makes small models competitive at 10x lower cost.

Published May 19, 2026
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