Comment by bitexploder

There also exists a $600-800 GPU that can run Qwen 27B 3.8 @ like 60 t/s for around 200W of energy.

I find Qwen Flash Next quite competent as well. 27B is a solid worker like you said. If you batch work and let them crank they do remarkably well. I am working on.

I started using Herdr and taught my agents to use it. So I use OMP loop and or goal, and it has a review cycles to wake up an Opus or Sol reviewer to make sure nothing is going off the rails with a local qwen flash next coordinating for me. I kinda prefer Sol, it seems like a more patient and thorough model, especially Sol 6, but Opus 5.5 is really good and its voice and attitude is not as grating as Opus 5 for sure.

I have a few V100 GPU running Qwen 27B and they do all the work overnight. Not quite the same speeds you have yet, but this is V100 machine and an old gaming machine with 16GB 4080 and a handful of 32GB V100s... all in less than 3K (ignoring that my gaming machine is 3 years old, but runs qwen flash next for free now as I game not a lot) for my little "we have AI at home" projects and there is a lot of interest in these old GPU now because they are rolling out of data centers now.

For my local work and personal projects... they just seem to be getting done in this setup. Every few days I sit down and do a big cycle with astra/fable/opus batch things up. I have projects that are basically "i want to see what happens" to "I want this to be good, I understand the code". Some of the throwaway projects that have just kind of magically finished more or less how I wanted have been great.