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Switching from Claude Code to local Qwen for Android dev — can smaller local models keep up?

Hey everyone, I’ve been using Claude Code and OpenAI Codex for Android development, but recurring subscription fees and tight rate limits pushed me to experiment with running local models. Right now, I’m running a quantized Qwen 3.5 Coder on my setup (RTX 4060 Ti 8GB VRAM + 32GB system RAM) through…

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  1. 2026-10-07 08:00 · r/LocalLLM
    Switching from Claude Code to local Qwen for Android dev — can smaller local models keep up?

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