Comment by jauntywundrkind

Agreed not, but I think we are also moving towards a place where harnesses have code mode built in and where data swizelling and tool use is something the LLMs have to be competent at. I think that's present enough here!

And to beat Qwen3.5-4B with such a capable model is amazing, on top of so many win/draws against 9b in the more general arena.

I can definitely see there being some roles for local agents that offload shell scripting & doing some scut work. I don't know what speed to expect but like, if someone has a decent NPU or GPU and can just get a bunch of basic systems work done with a small local model that could really speed up a lot of workflows that I see day after day after day.