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Re:Qwen3-Coder-Next by cubefox on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:58PM (#46877211)
> I experimented with the Q2 and Q4 quants.

Of course you get degraded performance with this.

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Re:Qwen3-Coder-Next by Aurornis on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @05:40PM (#46878398)
Obviously. That's why I led with that statement.

Those are the quant thresholds where people with mid-high end hardware can run this locally at reasonable speed, though.

In my experience Q2 is flakey, but Q4 isn't dramatically worse.

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Re:Qwen3-Coder-Next by cubefox on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @04:48AM (#46883733)
> Obviously. That's why I led with that statement.

Then why did you write this?

> It's always possible that there are some bugs in early implementations that need to be fixed later, but so far I don't see any reason to believe this is actually a Sonnet 4.5 level model.

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