>but I have seen the local 122b model do smarter more correct things based on docs than opus

Could you please share more about this

Maybe a bit misleading. I have used in in two places.

One Is for local opencode coding and config of stuff the other is for agent-browser use and for both it did better (opus 4.6) for the thing I was testing atm. The problem with opus at the moment I tired it was overthinking and moving itself sometimes I the wrong direction (not that qwen does overthink sometimes). However sometimes less is more - maybe turning thinking down on opus would have helped me. Some people said that it is better to turn it of entirely when you start to impmenent code as it already knows what it needs to do it doesn't need more distraction.

Another example is my ghostty config I learned from queen that is has theme support - opus would always just make the theme in the main file