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I tried llama3.1:8b and it's absolutely horrible.
You can use larger "open" models through free or dirt-cheap APIs though.
TBH local LLMs are still kinda "meh" unless you have a high vram GPU. I agree that 8b is kinda underwhelming, but the step up to like Qwen 14B is enormous.