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In my own experience, qwen3.8-27b 4bit can consistently find bugs in software written by sonnet 5 and opus 5. But it does do that at maybe 1/10th the speed. Still a pretty good deal if you're coding without wanting to spend big.

qwen3.8-27b 4bit has a following specifically for being exceptionally gifted for such a small model.

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It’s genuinely the first local model that has actually made me keep it around, it’s pretty good at spotting things existing tooling can’t, like comment rot/drift/summarising accurate git changes, it’s also the first local model that pushes back when it thinks it is right (I don’t dislike that even when it is wrong, it still hallucinates things that don’t actually work the way it confidently states they do).

It does clear the useful enough to be worth it bar though.

Zero interest in remote models but local ones if they offer utility, sure.

Runs pretty well on a 7900XTX as well.

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