alt Hacker NewsQwen3.6-35B is my daily driver for AI, and what convinced me to cancel my Claude subscription back in April. The Qwen3.6 line is easily the best local model I've tried, and I've tried a lot. I've got it diligently grinding away on my laptop right now, reviewing and fixing some bugs in my F# code.
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35B MoE is certainly a good and fast local model. I find 27B dense to be quite a bit smarter, so I daily drive that. I wish there was a ~100B MoE with maybe 10B active. It would be super smart and fast!
It was for me too but the new deepseek pricing is too good to ignore for now.
I honestly think that with my electricity prices running qwen 36B myself is more expensive than hitting the cache rate at deepseek.
I would recommend looking into Ornith1.0 - it's using Qwen3.6 35B-A3B and excels in coding, at least for my coding needs, Python, web-dev, SQL scripting and some C#. Using Pi harness.
I have been using Qwen3.6-35B-A3B as my daily driver as well and its been phenomenal when it comes to coding
What kind of machine do you have running that? My attempts at local have always resulted in a very hot lap
Is your Qwen3.6 locally run on your laptop? What kind of tokens/s are you getting from your laptop GPU?
compared to claude - how 'fast' is it in terms of throughput on your laptop?
I'm a big ole noob when it comes to local AI. What are you using for a harness? Or platform to interact with it?
What are the specs of your laptop and what tokens per second do you get?
I'm on the verge over here, the new Anthropic models have been a disappointment. I've tried the A3B variant, but had mixed results. What do you use as the coding agent, and have you heavily customized your workflows?
Qwen-3.6-35B-A3B was our "gateway drug" into switching our organisation to agent/harness-first coding.
Particularly, I had one team member who was extremely sceptical of AIs/LLMs/harnesses and refused to use them. One day he said "Well, I have an RTX 5090 doing nothing... should I try to get something up on it?" and a few minutes later he had 3.6-35B loaded up, running OpenCode.
It continues to be a workhorse to this day, running on both my local Mac for various types of jobs, an AMD R9700 at the office, and said teammember still uses it on his 5090, although in practical terms we do a lot more with DS-V4-Flash-0731 these days.