Consider running a bigger quant if possible
Summary
A user reports that switching from a highly-compressed IQ4_XS quant to the larger IQ4_NL_XL quant of Qwen 3.6 dramatically improves agentic-coding accuracy, despite lower tok/s, urging others to favor bigger quants when VRAM allows.
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