Excuse my ignorance. Could one just say, "One expert is all I can handle" and strip the others from the model?
Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
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Re: Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
The funny thing is Claude Cowork has taught me to be patient with response timelines. I’m now figuring I’ll be running locally no later than 2028. (I want to spend no more than $10k. And I want to run a model comparable to today’s SOTA.)
Today's SOTA also sounds totally sufficient to me, but I wonder how much our standards will inflate by 2028. Maybe a lot, maybe not at all...very hard to say.
This seems to vary by person. I get immense value in coding assistance from Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B which is like a frontier model from a year ago. But a lot of people say it’s stupid, useless, a toy, etc. I do work by the “short leash” method and mainly just use the model for brainstorming/planning/design assistance and zipping through the drudgery of boilerplate and executing refactors. I don’t think this tier of model is good for “hey LLM, build me a Github clone” ... but I also don’t see the value in that use anyway.
Re: Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Today's SOTA also sounds totally sufficient to me, but I wonder how much our standards will inflate by 2028. Maybe a lot, maybe not at all...very hard to say.
This seems to vary by person. I get immense value in coding assistance from Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B which is like a frontier model from a year ago. But a lot of people say it’s stupid, useless, a toy, etc. I do work by the “short leash” method and mainly just use the model for brainstorming/planning/design assistance and zipping through the drudgery of boilerplate and executing refactors. I don’t think this tier of model is…
Could you expand more on what you do with qwen3.6? Because I couldn't get the denser 27B version to do trivial "take this pattern, repeat it over a single file with minimal thought, just slightly beyond what I can do with sed" reliably.
Re: Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
#104My main question is whether when put into practical use, this can be measured in tokens/second, or more like 1 token per minute... I have seen locally hosted LLM that are as slow as 1 tok/second still be very useful if you give it a project to do something overnight and metaphorically walk away from it, check back with what it has done in 6 or 8 hours. 0.05 to 0.1 tok/s on the other hand, as reported in the URL for t…
> on hardware that ordinary people can afford These days, can "ordinary people" afford 24GB of ram and half a TB of NVME ssd? sigh
Maybe not afford new, but they probably already had it from before the current crisis?
Re: Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
#105> slow computer > 25 GB of RAM What?
Slow means CPU only in this context.
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Re: Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
This seems to vary by person. I get immense value in coding assistance from Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B which is like a frontier model from a year ago. But a lot of people say it’s stupid, useless, a toy, etc. I do work by the “short leash” method and mainly just use the model for brainstorming/planning/design assistance and zipping through the drudgery of boilerplate and executing refactors. I don’t think this tier of model is…
Could you expand more on what you do with qwen3.6? Because I couldn't get the denser 27B version to do trivial "take this pattern, repeat it over a single file with minimal thought, just slightly beyond what I can do with sed" reliably.
How was qwen3.6 launched?
The thing is, everyone has their own variant of "qwen3.6 27b" depending on the launch parameters, ranging from "SOTA in its class" to "completely broken"
Re: Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve been wondering if chat is the wrong interface for slower local models (and some projects) and maybe something like a ticket system is a better fit. I just decided how I would test this idea on my available hardware before I go drop money on a Mac Studio or GPUs. I’ll probably have a POC this week. There is nothing novel here, just need to spend the time to get it working for me.
Having a thin python/ts orchestrator and workers that pick up tasks from the directories like events and decide whether to make deterministic calls and wait is pretty standard albeit custom way of doing things in this space where you're bottlenecked by the concurrent call your workers/agents can make. The hard thing is always keeping complexity low and being ZeroOps.
Are there any frameworks/scaffolding/harnesses or general resources on this you can share? I’d love to learn more
Re: Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Today's SOTA also sounds totally sufficient to me, but I wonder how much our standards will inflate by 2028. Maybe a lot, maybe not at all...very hard to say.
This seems to vary by person. I get immense value in coding assistance from Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B which is like a frontier model from a year ago. But a lot of people say it’s stupid, useless, a toy, etc. I do work by the “short leash” method and mainly just use the model for brainstorming/planning/design assistance and zipping through the drudgery of boilerplate and executing refactors. I don’t think this tier of model is…
Caveat: I have not been able to try that model locally, so no personal experience. Running this locally at usable speeds would be cost prohibitive for personal coding use for me.
But if we can believe you that it's doing what a Claude model was doing a year ago then I'd say: OMG no I really never want to go back to that level of frustration getting an agent to do what I want it to do.
Re: Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
#110My main question is whether when put into practical use, this can be measured in tokens/second, or more like 1 token per minute... I have seen locally hosted LLM that are as slow as 1 tok/second still be very useful if you give it a project to do something overnight and metaphorically walk away from it, check back with what it has done in 6 or 8 hours. 0.05 to 0.1 tok/s on the other hand, as reported in the URL for t…
I’ve been wondering if chat is the wrong interface for slower local models (and some projects) and maybe something like a ticket system is a better fit. I just decided how I would test this idea on my available hardware before I go drop money on a Mac Studio or GPUs. I’ll probably have a POC this week. There is nothing novel here, just need to spend the time to get it working for me.
This is actually really smart. It would be like working with a team of humans.
I have a 3 Mac Studio set up and built an IDE / harness (propelcode.app) and would be interested in contributing if you’re open to collaboration