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mixed HN is impressed that Qwen 3.6, especially the 27B dense model and 35B A3B MoE variant, is crossing a threshold where local coding feels useful. But the dominant pushback is practical: high-end local hardware is expensive, laptops get hot and loud, cloud APIs can be cheaper, and simple greenfield demos are not the same — latest discussion,