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Re: Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

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Post by alasr » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 3:11 AM UTC

bmitc wrote: post #633

nozzlegear wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Qwen3.6-35B is my daily driver for AI, and what convinced me to cancel my Claude subscription back in April. The Qwen3.6 line is easily the best local model I've tried, and I've tried a lot. I've got it diligently grinding away on my laptop right now, reviewing and fixing some bugs in my F# code.

How do you run Qwen? I tried setting it up the other day and got really confused with all the options between Ollama, LM Studio, and llama.cpp and also the bazillion different Qwen models available.

- See "Llama.cpp vs Ollama"[0] and "Llama.cpp vs LM Studio"[1] for a high-level features comparison and find out which one suite you best (check out the "Target Users" category[0][1], at least).

- If you're still not sure, "LM Studio"[2] is ok to start with as you'll be able to download, start/stop/manage and chat with your LLM model all in one place: a single desktop app. Also, once installed, enable "Developer mode" under "Settings > Developer" tab; you might find it useful later.

- Regarding LLM models you can, based on your hardware spec, start with Qwen3.6, Google's Gemma4, OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b or Nvidia's Nemotron; use LM Studio's "Model Browser" screen to search for LLM models (each one listed with their organizational name/brand & logo: ignore the one you don't recognize as you might not need them at the start of your journey; you can always revisit them later, if needed.)

- Regarding which quantized LLM models you should download & run, just go with the default "LM Studio" selection (at least, in the beginning). Later, you can experiment with other quantization values to find out which one works best for your use cases.

I hope it helps.

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[0]. https://llama-cpp.com/llama-cpp-vs-ollama/

[1]. https://llama-cpp.com/llama-cpp-vs-lm-studio/

[2]. Ignore "LM Studio Bionic" for now; just download and install "LM Studio" from https://lmstudio.ai/download

Re: Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

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Post by harhargange » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 5:42 AM UTC

pjm331 wrote: post #384

harhargange wrote: post #320

I used the qwen 3.6 models and convinced myself to go ahead and get a gpu. I got the 7900 xt with 20 gb vram.

How’s that been going?

The 27b model inference speed is amazing at 35 tok/s with power limit to 260W. My cpu is 5950x, maybe that matters too. Really enjoying it and it’s my default now.

Re: Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

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Post by CyberDildonics » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 2:09 PM UTC

jstimpfle wrote: post #641

CyberDildonics wrote: post #638

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A rule of thumb is, well, an estimation. 1 = 1 isn't an estimation, it's just, well, the same number.

At this point, what isn't much of an estimation anymore is that you are here to explain things that nobody's asked for, and like to assume people around you have been waiting for your pearls of wisdom. You're unable to realize when this isn't so. You're so full of yourself that you don't notice. Also, in this particular thread, you started by wrongly making a correction of something that was clearly not an error, nor…

I understand that's you're frustrated from some deeply held software beliefs not holding up to examination, but making things up in a different thread is not a healthy way to work towards acceptance.