Yes
It is NOT as smart as CC or Codex but its enough to get most of my work done
bluejay2387 on Hacker News
90% of my coding is on Qwen 3.6 27b
In the thread “Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?”
Helped: Local model sufficient for most daily coding tasks.
Got in the way: Weaker performance on UI polishing and complex tasks.
About 90% of my coding is on Qwen 3.6 27b and Open Code with some custom skills and Semble. It is NOT as smart as CC or Codex but its enough to get most of my work done. I didn't set out to replace CC and Codex (I have an RTX 6000 so the TPS is faster than I care about, but the RTX 6000 was originally for other work). …