# Quoting Georgi Gerganov

> Source: <https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/georgi-gerganov/#atom-everything>
> Published: 2026-06-16 16:04:59+00:00

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](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555993#48557304), Hacker News comment on [Running local models is good now](https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/) by Boykis

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