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Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
The author recommends Qwen 3.6 27B as the best local model for general intelligence, noting it runs hot but performs impressively on complex tasks like coding and creative writing, and can be easily run locally using llama.cpp with an 8-bit quantization.
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