Tested Muse Glimmer locally on coding with OpenCode & agentic work
Summary
A user shares local testing of Muse Glimmer (Q4 quant via Unsloth) on llama.cpp with OpenCode, noting it performs below Qwen3.6 27B but had reliable tool calls.
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