11th February 2026 - Link Blog
GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering (via) This is a huge new MIT-licensed model: 744B parameters and 1.51TB on Hugging Face twice the size of GLM-4.7 which was 368B and 717GB (4.5 and 4.6 were around that size too).
It's interesting to see Z.ai take a position on what we should call professional software engineers building with LLMs - I've seen Agentic Engineering show up in a few other places recently. most notable from Andrej Karpathy and Addy Osmani.
I ran my "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" prompt through GLM-5 via OpenRouter and got back a very good pelican on a disappointing bicycle frame:
Posted 11th February 2026 at 6:56 pm
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