Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development by naikrovek on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:44PM (#48726324)

Available models aren’t really trending upward in size. Not like I thought they would, anyway.

They’re trending to be the right size to be good.

Qwen3.6-35B is not as good as Qwen3.6-27B. The larger model is faster, but a lot dumber; it gets caught in loops, makes crazy mistakes, and is just not as good. It’s bigger, but it is nowhere near as good as the 27B variant.

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Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development by zargon on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:51PM (#48727670)

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is worse than 27B because it's an MoE and 27B is dense. 35B only passes each token through 3B of its total parameters, whereas 27B sends each token through all 27B parameters.

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Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development by naikrovek on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:50AM (#48744805)

I did not know that, thank you. I should have known that probably, but I'm new to all of this.

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