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AI · simonwillison.net · Wednesday, 17 June 2026

Qwen‑3.6‑27B proves fast local coding assistant on M2 Ultra and RTX 5090

Georgi Gerganov, the mind behind llama.cpp, says Qwen‑3.6‑27B handles daily refactoring and code generation effortlessly on his M2 Ultra laptop and RTX 5090 GPU. The lightweight ggml harness runs offline, showing that high‑quality coding assistance is now viable without cloud services.

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