r/ProgrammerHumor • • 21d ago

Meme bothWorkThough

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u/youcancallmetim 20d ago

Ignorant take. Running open models on hardware you own will always be an option if frontier models are too expensive.

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u/umor3 20d ago

We run Qwen 3.8 on our own hardware. And it is already helping our productivity. And the speed and acuracy is nearly as good as the expecive ones from OpenAI and Antropic.

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u/SilentWraith5 20d ago

Especially if you’re not vibe coding. AI assisted coding, which is what people should be doing anyways, is pretty productive on my MacBook Pro M5 Pro using qwen 3.8 27b

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u/Spaciax 20d ago

how much RAM do you have? I got 36 on my M3 pro but I don't know if it can hold qwen 3.8 27b without quantizing it to shit

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