You’re right about the coding, but not about the rest. I use this 27B for everyday tasks that aren’t actually coding. When it comes to coding, GLM5.2 is, in my view, a marvel; it’s inexpensive and works very well when used properly – but for everything else, from sorting emails to pre-generation and analysis of varying quality, it does the job that GPT and Claude can’t do for free, and sometimes not quite as well. I use Claude for coding because I’ve got used to the way it works, which suits me. But the 27B does the opposite: the ‘local’ mode is there to help you get used to the way it works, and that might be the point.