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TielCoder's 22 GB 4-bit quant matches Opus4.6 medium on recent real life coding issues, surpassing KAT-Coder and Nail as strongest and fastest MoE picks.

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Qwen3.8-27B is amazing, but it’s slow. A stronger 35B-A3B Mixture of Experts-coder that can run and solve real codebase issues fast (even on constrained hardware) is a valuable addition to the arsenal. This one is the strongest and most consistent 35B-A3B I’ve benchmarked, on both correctness and s…

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  1. 2026-08-24 13:38 · r/LocalLLaMA
    TielCoder's 22 GB 4-bit quant matches Opus4.6 medium on recent real life coding issues, surpassing KAT-Coder and Nail as strongest and fastest MoE picks.

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