Localmaxxing

vunderba 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Smaller models might not make the best agentic coding assistants, but I have a 128GB RAM headless machine serving llama.cpp with a number of local models that handles various tasks on a daily basis and works great.

- Qwen3-VL:30b > A file watcher on my NAS sends new images to it, which autocaptions and adds the text descriptions as a hidden EXIF layer into the image along with an entry into a Qdrant vector database for lossy searching and organization.

- Gemma3:27b > Used for personal translation work (mostly English and Chinese). Haven't had a chance to try out the Gemma4 models yet.

- Llama3.1:8b > Performs sentiment analysis on texts / comments / etc.

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verdverm 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Look into updating to Gemma4 and Qwen3.6, they are good at agentic things. qwen36moe with unsloth's 8bit quant is my daily driver now.

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nateb2022 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Have you noticed a gap between 8bit and 4bit quant? I've always ran 4bit quant cause less memory required

	▲	verdverm 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I run the biggest quant because it is more capable, spark has enough memory for two qwen at 8bit and full context length (roughly 48G each) I find gemini/gemma to have become worse at coding, they are better for non-coding tasks, but maybe not even that, the hallucinations and instruction following have both degraded ime

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weezing 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In my country we write longer and more detailed texts in primary school. That's blogpostmaxxing.

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nateb2022 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Comparing to Opus is a little unfair, a comparison against Haiku would be more fair. And for a really fast cloud model, I'd be interested to see how latency stacks up against GPT-5.3 Instant or Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.

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verdverm 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've been using Qwen-3.6-35B-A3B on a spark for my local coding adventures. It's really quite good and getting faster (running the PR before it gets merged is already a 2x token gen speedup)

I cannot imaging spending the prices for Opus anymore, the little guys are getting good enough and in another year I expect to be even better.

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rvz 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This whatever '-maxxxing' nonsense is really 'cringemaxxing'.

The people using it need to look at the origins of it first before using it everywhere.

	▲	sometimelurker 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You need to be less etymology-pilled. Seriously tho, its a practical word choice in a lot of cases. puts emphasis on the 'maxxing' Think of it as claiming the word as your own.