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The bear can dance: Qwen 3.8 27B on one 3090 for 3 weeks

TL;DR: Local agent loop, ~21 days, one RTX 3090. Task was pretty much "build a CUDA inference engine for optimized for yourself on this GPU arch." Got working kernels and benches, not a win over llama.cpp. ~12 human messages. Compaction ate ~83 hours. Old joke: you don’t criticize how well the bear…

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  1. 2026-09-20 18:26 · r/LocalLLaMA
    The bear can dance: Qwen 3.8 27B on one 3090 for 3 weeks

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