My conclusion after a few days of local llming is that qwen3.5 is the best model for nerds, gemma4 not very impressive and pretty bad at tool use out of the box, maybe this will improve
Gemma is smart but not for agentic stuff. Best for chats and so on. Qwen coder next is the best stuff right now. Running it on CPU which is slow a bit but it is looocaaal!
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