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gemma 4 ran a shell command a web page told it to. qwen 3.8 mostly didn't.

i have been running local models as browser agents on an m5 macbook pro, 128gb, all through mlx, no cloud. first i just wanted to know which one was faster at real browser work, so i gave gemma 4 31b and qwen 3.8 27b the same four jobs in four tabs at once. look up mount shasta on wikipedia, read t…

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  1. 2026-09-20 20:12 · r/LocalLLaMA
    gemma 4 ran a shell command a web page told it to. qwen 3.8 mostly didn't.

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