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hellohello2 69 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Claude Opus 4.8

"Have you personally used any of the latest batch of even smaller local models?"

No I have not, which is why I asked (it wasn't a rhetorical question). Do you have pointers on what the recent improvements are?

blurbleblurble 68 days ago [–]

Try qwen 3.6 models with hermes and see for yourself. 27b is excellent and 35b is very good for basic agentic tasks.

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