Mixed
If you want a React TODO app or to set up a little boilerplate app with shadcn and other popular tools, it will produce something that looks not too bad
Aurornis on Hacker News
In the thread “Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development”, replying to this comment
Helped: Simple apps and explicit small tasks.
Got in the way: Niche work and long context sessions.
… My experience is that Qwen3.6 produced some amazing results for a small model when I tried it with simple apps that are widely reproduced everywhere. If you want a React TODO app or to set up a little boilerplate app with shadcn and other popular tools, it will produce something that looks not too bad. Then when I started straying outside of common tasks and into some of my more niche work, it would spin for hours and go in circles before finally producing some groan-inducing output that wasn't usable. …