I can see this pattern of many people using Qwen 3.8 27B for local inference both on Apple Silicon and x86. This implies the model must be very good, given all these peoples' opinion converges on it.

For it's size it's pretty good. I run it and the older Qwen 3.6 35B A3B, which is significantly faster, but also a bit dumber, on both my PC and my MacBook.

Wouldn't trust it for long form coding, but for shorter stuff it's really good.