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Has anybody done serious agentic work (e.g. using a CLI harness or simmilar) with 3.5 Plus/3.0 Max and such? How does it compare against Opus with Claude Code? I've used the chat quite a bit and I can't say at this point.

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Qwen3.5-plus has been my go-to model for non-autonomous chatbot that runs arbitrary code and shell commands on my local machine for one-off tasks (unlike Claude Code). It has no problem calling tools to run code (that contains tools), and pretty smart, and cheap (though lack of token caching is making it much more expensive than it should be).

I tried Qwen3.6-plus and it was not as good.

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