I'm running qwen3.6-35b-a3b with 8 bit quant and 64k context thru OpenCode on my mbp m5 max 128gb and it's as good as claude

of course this is just a trust me bro post but I've been testing various local models (a couple gemma4s, qwen3 coder next, nemotron) and I noticed the new qwen3.6 show up on LM Studio so I hooked it up. VERY impressed. It's super fast to respond, handles long research tasks with many tool calls (I h