been playing with LFM2.5-24B-A2B on my m4 mac, 700-900 prefill and 60 t/s in generation, its doing pretty well writing some python scripts for me.
Though if you have the room for it, Muse Glimmer is better in practice on low reasoning strength, and while its token generation is slow, it actually gets to answers pretty quickly.
"There are dozens of us!"
The thing you need to know about Muse is that you control its reasoning/thinking depth in the system prompt (low/medium/high/xhigh):
Reasoning strength: low
It is broadly comparable to Qwen 3.8 27B on "low" thinking, though it is weaker on very long context, one-shot stuff, but I dunno… I just like it more as a developer companion.
(I'm using Unsloth's version)