Software engineers who’ve pitted GLM 5.2 against their own workflows report a wide range of results. “The main thing that I realized with [GLM 5.2], was that it can do more long-horizon tasks,” said Hasan, whose company hosts GLM 5.2 on North American infrastructure. Earlier open-weights models, he said, often lost the thread after around five to fifteen back-and-forth exchanges. “This one, I noticed that I could be using it for hours, and it would still have a coherent train of thought.” David Nix, a principal software engineer at the Denver-based MetaRouter, puts LLMs to work at both his day