For most aspects my opinions don't change. But on coding, it has changed a lot. Two years ago I would just dismiss at the possibility that llm could write up a simple function. Now it has proven me wrong.
I don't know if "AI agrees" is reliable enough to count. Do you have a particular scientific article that you based on? And what are your example? Your post is mostly describing without concrete example so I can't follow.
An open model that is competitive to commercial models is a big deal if true. I hope someday I can find a way to run such high performance model locally on my laptop.