Running Qwen 3.8 27B at a UD-Q2 quant through Hermes on a custom backend, on just a 12GB RTX 5070, this person calls it the first local model they've felt they could confidently use for productive work. It can take a while to work through a problem, but they describe it as thorough, genuinely able to code and debug rather than just producing plausible-looking output.
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