Comment by 0x457

I recently picked up R9700 to run Qwen 3.8-27B.

1) I have knowledge DB that I query, spend a lot of time to get "query N models, stream to me all N results, let me pick which one" - only to find out that qwen beat all other contenders (those were picked before I got R9700, so the rest is =<8B parameters)

2) Setup OpenCode to use it and gave it a few tasks:

   - first task (new feature to my MCP) took 40 minutes to complete with zero input from me, while it took 20 for sonnet-5 and sonnet-5 kept bugging me. Results are near identical.
 
   - second task (port a specific version of a package to my flake) it got stuck in a hilarious loop where model already been told what hash to use by nix itself, but it wanted to figure our how to get hash another way for some reason.

   - third task (another task, but much harder than first one with most of the discovery already done), kept doing discovery and running out of context, went through 3 compactions (256k context is what I can fit on R9700). Room got too hot, so I stopped it.

  3) virtual assistant like Hermes but my own: no notes, works great.

I'm pretty sure codding issues are just harness and lack of memory that Claude Code already had. Pretty nice setup, similar to mine but I built my own lightweight PaaS that is highly specific to what I run.