I can 100% attest to the fact that Qwen3.6-27B is a very capable local model for coding tasks. Over the last month and a half I've been using it almost daily, either on my M2 Ultra or on my RTX 5090 box. I use it for small
[mundane tasks at ggml-org]- nothing really impressive, but definitely a helpful tool for a maintainer. I think I would be using it much more, if I didn't have to spend a lot of my time on reviewing PRs. Currently, I have a very lightweight harness - the pi agent with everything stripped (pi -nc --offline
) and[a short system prompt]to align it a bit with my style.
— Georgi Gerganov, Hacker News comment on Running local models is good now by Boykis
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