As a software engineer, this user relies on Claude for professional software engineering but uses Qwen 3.8 Flash Next for personal projects. Qwen 3.8 27B is also described as very usable, although slower on the author's hardware. The comparison is notable because the local models are used for actual coding rather than benchmarks, while the exact local hardware and runtime were not provided.
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