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Garrick Aden-Buie

Try qwen-3.6 or gemini-4, both are surprisingly good!

@simonpcouch.com

Yes, what Garrick said! I wrote up my experience with those models here: simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-04...

simonpcouch.comLLMs running on my laptop can drive coding agents now | Simon P. CouchQwen 3.5 and Gemma 4 are a step change for local coding agents.

28/4/26, 5:27 pm2 reposts13 likes

@emilyriederer.bsky.social

Great post! Fascinating to see Gemma 4 runtime on 48GB versus my attempt at using the smaller e4b on 16GB (ooph)