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by badsectoracula 56 days ago
FWIW i haven't used Claude or any other cloud-based LLM, only what i can run on my PC, so it could be that Claude is smart enough to follow the user's instructions, keep the equivalent of a mental state of what the user seems to want to do and only push back when it really makes sense whereas a small local LLM is too stupid to judge all that and Qwen3.6 errs on the side of being annoyingly cautious while Devstral Small 2 errs on the side of trusting the user being really okay with blowing their toes off :-P. As i wrote in my original reply, this is my personal preference and i prefer the LLM to just do what i ask.