Vibe coding on consumer hardware is still very limited; this is especially true on GPUs, whose RAM limit is around 16 - maybe 24 - GB for the vast majority (although Macs change the equation).

These are two realworld experiments, whose results are disappointing for those expecting levels of performance comparable to cloud services:

- https://deploy.live/blog/running-local-llms-offline-on-a-ten...

- https://betweentheprompts.com/40000-feet/

The first is even the 35b version of qwen3.6.