I think OpenClaw is the reason we are getting so much AI slop these days. The comments here with "key insights" are coincidentally < 1 month old. It seems for some reason, OpenClaw/NanoClaw loves Show HN posts.
Yep. The 9B has excellent image recognition. I showed it a PCB photo and it correctly identified all components and the board type from part numbers and shape. OCR quality was solid.
Tool calling with opencode worked without issues, but general coding ability is still far from sonnet-tier. Asked it to add a feature to an existing react app, it couldn't produce an error-free build and fell into a delete-redo loop. Even when I fixed the errors, the UI looked really bad. A more explicit prompt probably would have helped. Opus one-shotted it, same prompt, the component looked exactly as expected.
But I'll be running this locally for note summarization, code review, and OCR. Very coherent for its size.
Source: been there, done that.