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My new set up is a Mac Studio M5 Mac 128gb. Surprisingly it’s still hard to find decent models to fit on 128gb, but Qwen3.8 27b runs FAST so it’s really great as a personal agent that isn’t quantized to heck
Banning them would just invite competition which is why I think HF is holding out as long as they legally can.
Most of the large models collected data from marketing speak, opinion posts, etc (the whole internet basically). I feel like it’s a common sales pitch I’ve heard many times over - now it’s just compounded with everyone having access to the same pattern generator clanker
They solve different problems, but imo MCP has a speed overhead problem that cli tools don’t usually have - so my preference is CLI.
I use 4.6 as the brain and then handoff to a more rigid llm like GPT 5.2 or Opus 4.5
Until the handoff tax is lower than the cost of just doing it yourself, the ROI isn't going to be there for most engineering workflows.