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Re:Qwen3.8-27B by lrvick on Friday August 14, 2026 @12:08PM (#49300697)
Use 3.6 27b as a daily driver for months with charmbracelet crush. Gemma 26b-A3b is not even remotely comparable in terms of coding for me. YMMV depending on how you work, what harness you use, etc I suppose.
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Re:Qwen3.8-27B by NamlchakKhandro on Friday August 14, 2026 @08:29PM (#49306284)
really? crush.... it's trash harness compared to pi.

I didn't realise there are people out there unironically using crush

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Re:Qwen3.8-27B by lrvick on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:10PM (#49306543)
Yeah. I use it to do extensive work on full source bootstrapping, deterministic operating systems, compiler debugging, kernel debugging... all with one tiny go binary without endless NPM deps like pi (which /I/ regard as trash)

Works better than opencode (pi based) or anything else I have tried for my needs, and by far the prettiest and easiest to reason about what is going on.

But I will bite. What does pi do today better than crush for your use cases?

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Re:Qwen3.8-27B by Rayosay on Saturday August 15, 2026 @02:38AM (#49308282)
What's wrong with it? I like Crush. It's hard to find good harnesses that don't pull in mounds of Javascript like Pi and OpenCode.
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