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I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job I assumed needed a frontier model, and it finished in 30 minutes
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I thought I was asking a lot when work asked me to pick a computer (with no guidelines) and I asked for a 36GB MacBook and justified it by saying I needed to run local models to save money. I didn't ask for nearly enough. To its credit it does run local models fast, but it's very limited in context window. It starts slowing down long before hitting context sizes I hit in frontier models.
I was issued a laptop with 32GB for standard office work. 15 years ago our devs had 128GB. Of course, that was before COVID and AI insanity.
Meanwhile I've got 16GB and opening a third webbrowser causes shit to randomly close... Lol