Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All

Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All by danielhanchen on Thursday April 16, 2026 @12:55PM (#47796224)

Hey thanks - yes agreed - for now we do:

1. Split metadata into shard 0 for huge models so 10B is for chat template fixes - however sometimes fixes cause a recalculation of the imatrix, which means all quants have to be re-made

2. Add HF discussion posts on each model talking about what changed, and on our Reddit and Twitter

3. Hugging Face XET now has de-duplication downloading of shards, so generally redownloading 100GB models again should be much faster - it chunks 100GB into small chunks and hashes them, and only downloads the shards which have changed

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Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All by evilduck on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:40PM (#47798466)

Ah thanks, I wasn't aware of #3, that should be a huge boon.

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Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All by danielhanchen on Friday April 17, 2026 @04:25AM (#47803698)

Oh yes! This only applies if one uses hf download / snapshot_download - other normal download methods sadly won't have XET

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Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All by ssrshh on Thursday April 16, 2026 @09:37PM (#47801638)

If you would know - is this also why LM Studio and Ollama model downloads often fail with a signature mismatch error?

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Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All by danielhanchen on Friday April 17, 2026 @04:25AM (#47803693)

Probably yes

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