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Local LLM 35B MoE — Real-world coding benchmarks (Qwen vs Ornith vs KAT)
I’ve been running a fairly opinionated evaluation loop on ~35B A3B/MoE-class models for coding over the past few months. Not synthetic benchmarks: actual dev workflows, iterative debugging, refactoring passes, and failure recovery. Here’s where things stand for me: Qwen 3.6 (35B A3B via oMLX) This was my baseline. Stro