Scott Brower Scott Brower

How to Evaluate a Freelance Mobile Developer

Hiring is the highest-leverage decision in your project, and most clients make it on the wrong signals. Here's what to weight, what to discount, and what to listen for in the conversation.

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Scott Brower Scott Brower

Local LLM Showdown: Can Qwen and Gemma Write Quality SwiftUI Code?

I tested two local LLMs - Google's Gemma 4-26B-A4B and Alibaba's Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B - against five SwiftUI prompts ranging from basic UI to Swift actors, structured concurrency, and SwiftData. No cloud APIs, no RAG, no web search. Just the models, LM Studio, and Xcode telling me if the code actually compiles.

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