Comment by ApatheticCosmos

8 hours ago

I started using Claude right before 4.5 came out, and 4.6 is where it turned a corner for my use.

Qwen 3.8 Flash Next is there. 3.8 27b is fairly close.

I'm excited to see what Qwen 4 will bring.

I'm running on a 128GB Strix Halo for Flash Next and an Intel Arc Pro B70 (32GB) for 27b.

I just used 5.5 xhigh reasoning to make a massive implementation spec (for a vibey throwaway project/exploration, not anything important, burned 80% of the 5h window), now my Strix is in the process of implementing it.

I think there's probably low-hanging fruit to outsource reasoning from rote read/writes.... Just speculation though, I'm not a token optimization expert.