alt Hacker NewsI think many developers worth their salt will argue the same. Cloud is and has always been a shortcut to buying your own hardware. Local models will get better and smaller. Qwen3-coder-next runs on a Spark and is as capable as Sonnet 4.5. Bonsai released a 1-bit model yesterday.
I also like the freedom of not having to ration a daily allowance of tokens.
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graemep • today at 5:42 PM
A Spark is still not cheap hardware though. It is only cost effective for heavy users (i am not one).
Qwen3-coder-next is way worse than Sonnet 4.5. Also, despite he lack of "coder" in the name Qwen3.5 is much better at coding than Qwen3-coder-next so you might want to check that out.