Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development by mark_l_watson on Monday June 29, 2026 @05:17PM (#48725367)

I can come close to agreeing because queen-3.6-27b is my second favorite for local coding. I am using gemma4:26b-a4b-it-qat-48k (the "-48k" is from my modifying a model run with Ollama to always use a 48K context size). On a 32G Mac I use gemma4:26b-a4b-it-qat-48k and OpenCode and on my 16G MacBook Air I use gemma4:12b-it-qat-16k ("-16k" is my resizing context size) and little-coder. I break up projects into small libraries because local coding works better for me using small code bases.

I find that for local coding, I need to spend a lot of time building concise SKILLs for specific things I work on and try to only enable one or two skills per coding session.

To the author of the linked article nice job, and if you feel like adding to it, please add details on your setup.

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Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development by brandall10 on Monday June 29, 2026 @05:50PM (#48725767)

Curious why OpenCode instead of a more 'full-fat' version of Pi with the larger model?

I feel like the amount of context bloat that OpenCode puts these small models into the dumb zone too quickly. The system prompt alone is 9k tokens, and when you add your own setup it can easily creep up to 15k.

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Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development by mark_l_watson on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:17PM (#48727041)

I disabled many built in skills and increased the context size. I also use little-coder that is based in pi.

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