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Posted by alphabettsy 18 hours ago

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool(blog.alexellis.io)
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wallkroft 15 hours ago|
>Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus >looks inside >local Qwen is not "near Opus levels"
itsthecourier 9 hours ago||
wanted sovereignty, bought a Blackwell for usd12k, discovered a billing issue in some customer and explains that will cover the card

I don't follow how it supports the decision of buying the card, I would even say using online SOTA models would had caught it earlier without usd12k and monthly electricity being spent

alexellisuk 8 hours ago|
Author here. Thanks for the question. I'll answer assuming this is a question you have for me.

As explained in the post - the 3090s were what were the test bed that proved the investment was worth it. Customer support, architecture reviews, telemetry to check license compliance. None of that could be done with online models. The amount of time we can spend going backwards and forth with enterprise customers over email can really amplify costs to our team. A few actual issues we found and fixed were listed on the linked blog post: https://www.openfaas.com/blog/painless-support-with-diag/

Having recovered revenue using it in an airgap, to preserve data agreements was more of a cherry on the cake. No need to worry about the investment, it's covered itself.

Hope that helps.

bethekidyouwant 6 hours ago||
“This rock is not a worse hammer its a different tool”
mystraline 9 hours ago||
> We've all heard people say that local Qwen 27B or 35-A3B is "near-Opus level"

Uh, so, yeah. Im running local Qwen, but Qwen3.5-122B using Krasis https://github.com/brontoguana/krasis

Its by far better than Opus.

In fact with a phone migration, I was using an OLD android 2fa app "andOTP". Backup files it emitted were JSON but not any sort of standard.

I needed the standards version using otpauth:// to upload in my current 2fa. And gave it to my local qwen3.5-122b.

It responded with a scary "you uploaded credentials to a public instance LLM! And, it emitted standards compliant URLs. The new app "Tokn" ingested just fine. When side by side was tested, everything was 100% correct.

I coukd have did it myself, but it was a one-off. And asking local Qwen worked perfectly. Took like 6 minutes. Would have taken me 1h.

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