Qwen 35b a3b surprises me

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Summary

User reports positive experience with Qwen 35b a3b for agentic coding tasks, noting it outperforms Gemma4 26b in their use case and works well for demo/data analytics, especially in agentic mode versus chat.

Just wanted to share that I'm pretty happy about Qwen 35b a3b agentic coding performance. I'm running the model in q80 quant, kv cache both q8\_0 as well, with 262144 in 4090 + 5060 ti, via llama.cpp backend with claude code pointing to localhost. For demo/data analytics purposes, it works pretty well. I haven't used it for large codebases, but it definitely is better than gemma4 26b in my use case. One thing that surprises me is that it seems to get better outcome in agentic coding, than chat. When using it with just chat UI, i found the code qwen35b provide a bit too clunky. I wonder of others have compared its performance against open source harnesses (Pi / opencode).
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