alt Hacker NewsQwen3.8-27B has been the turning point for me. It's not as strong as the absolute frontier, but it's the first time I feel local coding models are actually functionally useable as daily drivers.
Qwen3.8-27B has been the turning point for me. It's not as strong as the absolute frontier, but it's the first time I feel local coding models are actually functionally useable as daily drivers.
Man I am having a hell of a time trying to optimize 3.8 over 3.6. I don’t have a particularly powerful setup but I can usually push 20-30tok/s on 3.6 and I can barely get to 10 on 3.8. Both unsloth same VRAM/RAM distribution more or less. My 3.6 is still producing consistently better results and faster