I've had even better results using the dense 27B model -- less looping and churning on problems

Which dense model are you referring to? The dense model isn’t finetuned for code instruction according to the model card.

Yeah the page you linked even shows the benchmarks in coding for this model, so I'd be curious where that claim comes from

They own GEICO...

Oh; well that’s embarrassing haha

Nah, you can bet there's a tax break in there somewhere