Are Qwen 3.6 27B and 35B making other ~30B models obsolete?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>With practically all of LocalLlama glazing Qwen 3.5/3.6 for it's coding skills. Along with the fact that Alibaba themselves are focusing on

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><blockquote> <p>Wait, I need to be careful about the &quot;no_think&quot; tag in the system prompt. The system prompt says <code>/no_think</code>.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I seen this one mentioned but it was a source from about 14 months ago.</p> <p>In the age of the Qwen 3.6 and Gemma 4- is there still a use for

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm genuinely unsure if I'm doing something wrong, or if the model is just worse, despite the community enthusiasm. I tend to use it with pi

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I have a 5080 + 64gb of ram. What model would be as intelligent as possible while still running decent enough on my specs?</p> </div><!-- SC_ON

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Does anyone else have the same experience comparing these two - for me 3.5 122B outperforms 3.6 by a large margin. 3.6 gets lost as long as the

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>so as it says, I am not a FE eng, but want to do some light FE work<br /> I don't need the smartest model but need to get some work done.<br /> I

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm tired of copy &amp; pasting code. What should I try and why?<br /> Which is faster / easier to install?<br /> Which is easier to use?<br />