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M5 Max 128GB running Qwen3.8 Flash Next as a real agent all day: ~68 tok/s at 100k-190k context, plus what I learned making local agent automations actually reliable

I've been running a local agent setup on a MacBook Pro M5 Max (40-core GPU, 128GB) and pulled real numbers from my agent logs after a long build session. Sharing because most benchmarks I see are short prompts, and agent work looks nothing like that. Setup - Model: ddalcu/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-MLX-Ser…

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  1. 2026-11-13 03:39 · r/LocalLLM
    M5 Max 128GB running Qwen3.8 Flash Next as a real agent all day: ~68 tok/s at 100k-190k context, plus what I learned making local agent automations actually reliable

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