This person runs Qwen3-Coder 30B on a 64GB Strix Halo and says they have no need for the cloud. With more than 20 years in software engineering and a PhD in computer science, they are explicit that this is not for a vibe coder who needs the model to do everything: when they lead and the tasks are simple enough, it does impressive work.
They tested Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (not viable at 64GB) and found Qwen 3.8 27B and Qwen 3.6 35B worse than Qwen3-Coder for their purposes, so they stay on Qwen3-Coder until something better fits. They also use image-generation models for stock-style photographs in Photoshop composites.
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