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540 upvotes and 234 comments for a practitioner running Q4_K_S with the KV cache quantized to Q8_0, inside the Pi agent, no MCP, only bash plus read/write/edit, working unsupervised on complex refactors. (r/LocalLLaMA) The weak point is Pi's edit tool, since the model often retries edits after breaking indentation. A 27B local model doing real agentic refactoring for a daily user is a threshold I didn't expect this year.
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PR #26062, "server: support MCP stdio," by ngxson, merged into ggml-org/llama.cpp on July 25 (r/LocalLLaMA). It landed alongside #26061 (vendored subprocess.h, merged July 24) and pwilkin's #26075 integration-and-tests PR. Until now, llama-server's web UI could only talk to MC...
Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K2.6 today and the numbers are hard to ignore. One trillion parameters total, 32 billion active per token across 384 experts, 256K context window, and native multimodal input. It scores 58.6 on SWE-Bench Pro versus GPT-5.4's 57.7 and Claude Opus 4.6's...
For about a year, "run your agent locally" meant accepting a model that couldn't reliably call a tool twice in a row. That excuse is gone. Meta Superintelligence Labs published Muse Glimmer today: a 29.6B dense causal transformer, 52 layers, 6,656 hidden dim, with a ~1.8B ViT-...
An r/ClaudeAI post at 232 upvotes warns against treating it as an hour of reading, saying it tests whether you understand how agentic systems work instead of whether you've used Claude Code. 60 questions in 120 minutes, $125, scaled pass at 720/1000, valid 12 months, spanning...
Alibaba released Qwen3.6-27B on April 22. Dense architecture. Open weights. 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified, within 3.7 points of Claude Opus 4.6. On SkillsBench, it scores 48.2% versus its own 397B MoE predecessor's 30.0%. That's a 77% improvement with 14.8x fewer parameters. Let...
Three moves, two days, no coordination between them. August 10–11: GitHub shipped Ollama as a BYOK provider inside Copilot for JetBrains (GitHub Changelog). Unsloth released Unsloth Desktop with a command literally named unsloth start claude, which points Claude Code and Codex...
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