Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Beats Gemini 2.5 Pro on Terminal-Bench 2.0: 24.6% vs 19.6% with little-coder Harness

r/LocalLLaMA·medium signal

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (a 35B MoE model with only 3B active parameters) paired with the little-coder harness scored 24.6% (±3.2) on Terminal-Bench 2.0, landing above Gemini 2.5 Pro on Gemini CLI (19.6%). This demonstrates that small open-weight MoE models with the right harness can outperform frontier cloud models on agentic terminal coding benchmarks, shifting the cost-performance frontier for local agent deployment.