Been running Qwen3.6-27B through a 3-critic harness. The harness matters more than I thought
Been running Qwen3.6-27B (8-bit) through my coding harness for a few days, alongside GLM5.2. The harness uses 3 critics — code review, test review, Playwright e2e — each with fresh context before accepting output. Qwen3.6 is legit for a 27B dense model. Benchmarks weren't lying.
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Been running Qwen3.6-27B (8-bit) through my coding harness for a few days, alongside GLM5.2. The harness uses 3 critics — code review, test review, Playwright e2e — each with fresh context before accepting output. Qwen3.6 is legit for a 27B dense model. Benchmarks weren't lying. It handles repo-level reasoning, produces decent code. But yeah it makes more mistakes than frontier models. Expected. W
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