Models that you can run at home (Like Qwen 35B) aren't remotely close to Opus or GPT 5.5. Not even close. The only open models that are in that neighbor are around 1T params, so forget about running at home.

It's kind of like driving a shitbox. It can often drive you from A to B, and some people will try to convince you it's fine. It's not.

There's no logical reason other than absolutely requiring the privacy, doing it for fun, or niche use cases like airplanes and so on. If you can't spend the insanely subsidized $20 for codex, you can use an API for chinese models which will run circles around these tiny models.

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pbasista 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Models that you can run at home (Like Qwen 35B) aren't remotely close to Opus or GPT 5.5.

Is that characterization based on some objective facts or benchmarks?

	▲	kube-system 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes, there aren't any 35B models that are beating frontier models at just about anything generalized
	▲	redox99 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Based on private test prompts I've run through OpenRouter.

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xgulfie 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't need a Ferrari to get to work

	▲	orangeisthe 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But you need the best tools to do the job