Quoting Georgi Gerganov

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Georgi Gerganov attests that Qwen3.6-27B is a very capable local coding model, which he uses daily on his M2 Ultra or RTX 5090 with a lightweight harness.

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# A quote from Georgi Gerganov Source: [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/georgi-gerganov/](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/georgi-gerganov/) 16th June 2026 > I can 100% attest to the fact that Qwen3\.6\-27B is a very capable local model for coding tasks\. Over the last month and a half I've been using it almost daily, either on my M2 Ultra or on my RTX 5090 box\. I use it for small[mundane tasks at ggml\-org](https://github.com/search?q=%22Assisted-by%22+user%3Aggml-org&type=commits&ref=advsearch)\- nothing really impressive, but definitely a helpful tool for a maintainer\. I think I would be using it much more, if I didn't have to spend a lot of my time on reviewing PRs\. Currently, I have a very lightweight harness \- the pi agent with everything stripped \(`pi \-nc \-\-offline`\) and[a short system prompt](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/.pi/gg/SYSTEM.md)to align it a bit with my style\. —[Georgi Gerganov](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555993#48557304),Hacker News comment on[Running local models is good now](https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/)by Boykis

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