Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B

In a personal benchmark of local and frontier LLMs for his 'Digital Nervous System', the author tested Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B, Qwen 3.6 27B, Bonsai 27B, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Laguna 2.1S, Claude Sonnet 5, and …

A developer tested five local AI models against Claude Sonnet 4 on a real coding task—building a tag manager for a blog admin panel. Only two models shipped working code: Sonnet 4 and Qwen3-Coder 30B-…

A Hacker News thread on June 16 revealed that local LLMs like Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B handle about 70% of daily coding tasks but fall short on complex multi-file reasoning, creating a gap akin to a junior ve…