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I have a spare 3090 that I want to use to off-load some tasks from Claude to a local model (probably Qwen 3.6 27b), any success with that? Is it good enough to

• springtimesun 2mo ago
  Alone, Qwen can close basic bug tickets. Passing up and passing down have not really worked that well for me. In some cases passing Qwen’s output up to Claude can be actively harmful bc it can anchor the solution space to a bad approach. Passing down isn’t worth the time. By the time I have Claude plan something, most of the time it’s 1/3 or 1/4 more tokens to just have Claude do the implementation. Where it has worked is to have Qwen not just write the proposed solution, but also include all the files it consulted and why it did or didn’t consider them. The documentation is often longer than the patch, but it lets me prompt Claude differently. I tell Claude to challenge the implementation and find holes, edge cases and things not considered. Maybe it’s my imagination, but Claude kicks it into another gear when you tell it to evaluate the results of another model. Maybe this is a pure preference but I find Qwen to be bad at UI and these edits Claude will often let go. One thing I haven’t tried, but will at some point is to hand Qwen all my half assed ideas and things I can’t be bothered to spec out. Probably not to take the output, but to help me draft a more complete issue because it’s only costing me electricity.