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.