alt Hacker NewsI've tried running qwen 3.6 locally and it felt like LLMs a year ago where you can get them to do some stuff but the tasks have to be very small and you have to course correct them a lot to the point it's hard to say it's any faster than doing it all yourself.
Certainly the gap is closing but I feel it still makes more sense to pay pennies to run the full sized open models hosted on much better hardware.
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verdverm • yesterday at 6:08 PM
I had qwen36moe revamp my PhD thesis with a rewrite using JAX. Gave it access to my old code, helpednitnwhen it got stuck or didn't quite understand a few times.
Overall I was very impressed with its open box reimplementation. I remain of the mind they are widely underrated.
What edition of Qwen 3.6? 35b-q6 (with MOE) has felt good enough for general purpose agentic coding.
You obviously need a 32GB card to run that (or a 64GB Mac), and realistically anything lesser than an RTX 5090 is going to be too slow for practical use.