Sweep 1.5B

What hackers pick instead

• SupermavenFast, smart tab autocomplete that works well in editors like Neovim and PyCharm; critics say Cursor's purchase effectively killed it.10recommend
• Zeta 2 by Zed IndustriesFree open-weights autocomplete model from Zed that runs locally, so code stays on your machine. One critic finds it conservative, rarely proposing more than a few obvious lines.6recommend

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The 30 most detailed of 35 comments. Each links to the original.

1. Nice work the next-edit framing matches how real refactors happen much better than token-level autocomplete.

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

2. I can even chat about C code with that model with LM Studio on my Macbook at 200 tokens per seconds

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

3. training a relatively small model that can beat larger models for this important task

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

4. This seems to be a far more efficient method of accomplishing a more scoped problem.

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

5. I haven't been blown away by the quality of its suggestions unfortunately

   Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

6. It's really impressive so far, so quick to respond on a mac mini M2.

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

7. It's been working well so far (including next-edit prediction!)

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

8. pushing the capabilities of _small_ models further and further

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

9. Sweep 1.5B is "just" 12 % point better than Qwen2.5-Coder

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

10. I am super impressed by the performance/quality.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

11. it really saves time and effort

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI”

12. Sweep 7B is 25% point better.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

13. Next edit makes a difference.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

14. It's very overeager, suggesting tons of stuff that I never accepted because it made no sense.

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

15. AI is good at fixing a narrow subset of issues/tasks in GitHub, so humans still need to be involved in most tasks.

    Mixed · Jul 2026 · in “Nothing works and everyone is euphoric”

16. It's an interesting model for sure but I am unable to get tab auto_completion/inline in zed

    Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

17. fascinating to see the transition from original concept to producing models. cool stuff.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

18. We think SWE-Sweep is one of the most exciting research directions to work on right now.

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Show HN: Benchmark: AI doesn't find bugs unless you tell it what's wrong”

19. they have deleted code that I definitely still needed, and I had to reject those changes

    Mixed · May 2026 · in “God Damn AI is making me dumb”

20. harness code that cleans up many bad behaviours that makes it a lot more usable

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

21. Sweep is designed to find these hidden leaks in your AI tool configurations.

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “.env is safe but your –/.claude is not”

22. This is great and similar to what I was thinking of doing at some point.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

23. This looks really neat, interesting technical writeup as well!

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

24. I've used it to write blog posts / large user-facing copy.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

25. It's good. The blog post about it is very interesting.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

26. so this plugin will be a great addon for me

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

27. This is a really good plugin.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

28. This seems great for code

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

29. seems like a "why not/resume embellish/show VC" type release

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”

30. one has to sign in to their site to use the plugin

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete”