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by schmuhblaster 42 days ago
I’ve been playing around with qwen3.6-35b-a3b and managed to boost it significantly by leveraging my own custom harness [0].

It is quite astonishing to see how far local models have progressed, and I think that if you enjoy tinkering a bit, you can save a good bit of money (if you happen to have the hardware lying around anyways). Overall it’s still hard to beat the the cost/convenience combination of a cloud based model provider though.

[0] https://deepclause.substack.com/p/how-to-make-small-models-p...

2 comments

Cool, so the determinstic harness can boost the agent pretty much!
Harness engineering is very interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing.