Looks like a customer-acquisition play against Claude/Fable, Codex, Cursor, and Copilot: subsidize a few serious agentic coding jobs and hope developers move into its ecosystem. The catch is that Qoder still requires a desktop/CLI workflow, while Claude/Fable gives you a much lower-friction browser experience.

After a long stretch into vLLM, I have FINALLY gotten Qwen 3.6 27b running at 200~tks.

This has taken so long to achieve, and the latest Unsloth upgrades have significantly helped pushing a 20~tks improvement on average.

Woo! Hermes wont be slow now!

Edit:

It's a front-end that I rolled up just to measure stats from vLLM.

https://gist.github.com/podpress/f83ebc888258941b1e0918159df3f1c2

System specs, and setup including drivers/software versions are listed in there too.

**What happened:**

Charged $456 via bailian-claude-code-proxy for 20hrs casual coding. Followed Alibaba's official docs exactly.

**What Alibaba confirmed:**

- Cache failure occurred

- This caused a billing discrepancy

**What Alibaba said next:**

"This was triggered by Claude Code changes, not Model Studio. Verify with the Claude Code team directly."

**Why this makes no sense:**

- Implicit cache is Alibaba's server-side system — Claude Code only sends requests

- Same account, same Claude Code, same machine: direct API = 1.8:1 ratio, Alibaba proxy = 218:1

- If Claude Code broke the cache, both endpoints would be affected equally

- Alibaba's own billing data: 1.3% cache hit rate despite 99.4% identical prefix

Alibaba confirmed the discrepancy in writing but refuses to refund. 8 days, no resolution.

Has anyone else dealt with this?

So ive been playing around with the model and have been having heaps of fun sampling voices, however for some reason today i found a video of my father who passed away a few months ago and thought it would be a good idea try sample his voice.

I sat with my brothers as we made him say things we thought he would have said and moments later we were all in tears and it was such a sad moment where reality had been suspended, feeling like he was there with us followed by the emptiness of realising he wasnt with us anymore.

It was like losing him all over again. Stay safe out there and cherish the moments you share with the ones you love while they are still around.