Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool

kept by eddie jun 18

Local Qwen models are a different tool from frontier LLMs, offering privacy and fixed costs but suffering from looping and hallucination issues.

How to run Qwen 3.5 locally
Hacker News commenters share experiences and benchmarks for running Qwen 3.5 locally, covering hardware choices, quantization trade-offs, and practical coding performance.
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Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding models have reached surprising quality and usability over the past six months, now offering ~75% of frontier-model accuracy for many development tasks on a 64GB M2 Mac.
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Apple in talks with startup that shrinks AI models to run on an iPhone
PrismML compressed Alibaba's Qwen model from 54 GB to under 4 GB to run on an iPhone, and Apple is in early talks to evaluate the technology.
also on Qwen, #privacy, #ai
Fable & The End of the Free Lunch
The author argues that after Fable's high-cost release, developers must allocate work between expensive models and cheaper alternatives like GLM, ending the era of free performance gains.
also on Qwen, #ai-coding, #ai, #developer-tools