[kanemcgrath]

I do love using local models when I can, but qwen-35B is the best model I can run, and while its an insanely good local model, it does not compare to the big ones.

[deaux]

Have you tried the latest Gemma? You might prefer it to Qwen, depending on what you're doing.

[kanemcgrath]

I did, but in almost everything I tried even qwen3.5 was better, and 3.6 was a huge step up.

[deaux]

Good to know, did you also try non-coding or is that what you use it for? For tasks unrelated to coding we've generally preferred Gemma.

[kanemcgrath]

So far I have done coding projects only, but I have some ideas for some non-coding agent projects in the future, so I'll give Gemma another shot