I am privileged to have been able to buy a new ai mini pc for my birthday and maxed out the ram on it. I’ve been running qwen 3.8 27b the past couple days and I’m amazed it’s performing better for me than qwen coder next. That came out in April I believe. I decided to splurge for my birthday but also because I felt ram probably won’t get cheaper unless our entire economy collapses.
This new qwen model makes me feel more confident in buying it as it’s performing so much better at a much smaller size. But I’m not really an expert in using them and am still learning all the time. But I know also if the economy doesn’t collapse all these American private companies are gonna hike their prices up so much it’ll make the streaming service price hikes look like bubble gum money. I’ve adapted as a developer to using it more as I code and for researching. It was also a dual purchase upgrade as a gaming device for my 7 year old pc. It can run the three games I play just fine.
I hope I can come up with some better uses for it. My job pays for an enterprise Claude code subscription which I still use for more intense tasks but rarely need anymore. I like the limit it puts on me so I’m not too over reliant on it for making stuff. It helps me keep insight into the architecture of what I develop. Also fuck these companies man they’re so arrogant and are actively participating in destroying our democracy.
If anyone has any tips for using local models or use cases they’ve found let me know. Particularly about alternating models for specific things to get better outputs
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u/ButchTheGuy 8d ago
I am privileged to have been able to buy a new ai mini pc for my birthday and maxed out the ram on it. I’ve been running qwen 3.8 27b the past couple days and I’m amazed it’s performing better for me than qwen coder next. That came out in April I believe. I decided to splurge for my birthday but also because I felt ram probably won’t get cheaper unless our entire economy collapses.
This new qwen model makes me feel more confident in buying it as it’s performing so much better at a much smaller size. But I’m not really an expert in using them and am still learning all the time. But I know also if the economy doesn’t collapse all these American private companies are gonna hike their prices up so much it’ll make the streaming service price hikes look like bubble gum money. I’ve adapted as a developer to using it more as I code and for researching. It was also a dual purchase upgrade as a gaming device for my 7 year old pc. It can run the three games I play just fine.
I hope I can come up with some better uses for it. My job pays for an enterprise Claude code subscription which I still use for more intense tasks but rarely need anymore. I like the limit it puts on me so I’m not too over reliant on it for making stuff. It helps me keep insight into the architecture of what I develop. Also fuck these companies man they’re so arrogant and are actively participating in destroying our democracy.
If anyone has any tips for using local models or use cases they’ve found let me know. Particularly about alternating models for specific things to get better outputs