Qwen scores above sonnet in coding benchmarks. Runs locally. In personal use it's really good. Anecdotally others have used it to vibe code or agentic code successfully. Not toy problems. Not a toy model.

Qwen3.6 raises the bar for models of its size. There really isn't a comparison in my opinion.

Having tried it.

Qwen is really good.

Also, generally, it makes sense. 8B models are generally not very good^.

That this 8B model is decent is impressive, but that it could perform on par with a good model 4 times as large is a daydream.

^ - To be polite. The small models + tool use for coding agents are almost universally ass. Proof: my personal experience. Ive tried many of them.

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