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Public story · 2026-08-25 · high
A commenter's missing-baseline callout led the developer to test Qwen3.8-27B, which solves fewer issues but runs six times faster.
Why now: As of August 25, 2026, the GGUF, MTP-GGUF, and MLX builds are live on Hugging Face, comparison chart included.
An independent developer claims TielCoder-35B-A3B matches Opus 4.6 at medium reasoning effort on real repository issues, per the Tiel-Coder-35B-A3B-GGUF model card. For teams weighing local models against frontier APIs, a 22GB 4-bit quant claiming that accuracy means near-frontier coding help without a subscription.
The model is a fine tune of Ornith-1.5, packaged as GGUF, MTP-GGUF, and MLX builds. It's quantized with a code-weighted imatrix and paired with a chat template built for token-efficient agentic coding. The developer says it beats KAT-Coder and Nail on correctness and fix latency.
A top comment called out the missing baseline. The developer answered by testing Qwen3.8-27B, a smaller model that solves fewer issues than TielCoder-35B-A3B. It runs six times faster at medium effort, a number the original chart never showed.
The comparisons are the developer's own, run on real repository issues, not a published benchmark suite. Nobody has checked the parity claim independently yet.
Each link below shares sources, entities, or timing with this story.
Ollama uses MLX / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Ollama uses MLX); both cover GGUF, Hugging Face, MLX, Qwen3; reported by the same outlet (huggingface.co).
Ollama uses MLX / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Ollama uses MLX); both cover GGUF, Opus, Qwen3; reported by the same outlet (huggingface.co).
Claude Code uses Opus / Shared entities / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Claude Code uses Opus); both cover GGUF, Opus, Qwen3; earlier GGUF coverage from 2026-07-26.
Claude Code uses Opus / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Claude Code uses Opus); both cover GGUF, Hugging Face; reported by the same outlet (huggingface.co).
Ollama uses MLX / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Ollama uses MLX); both cover Coder, Qwen3; overlapping topics (coding, comment).
Claude Code uses Opus / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Claude Code uses Opus); both cover Opus, Qwen3; overlapping topics (agentic, coding).
Ollama uses MLX / Shared entities / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Ollama uses MLX); both cover A3B, Qwen3; earlier A3B coverage from 2026-03-22.
Claude Code uses Opus / Shared entity: Hugging Face / Same source domain / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Claude Code uses Opus); both cover Hugging Face; reported by the same outlet (huggingface.co).