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mixed HN is impressed that Qwen 3.6 27B and related local models are becoming genuinely useful, especially for privacy-minded coding and experimentation. But the thread is dominated by caveats: high-end MacBooks are expensive, hot, and noisy; cloud APIs may be cheaper; and toy demos like games or landing pages do not prove p — latest discussion,