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Which coding agent gets the most out of a local Qwen 3.8 27B? I lined up 10 and logged tokens, cache and sandbox blocks

Part 2 of my agent test. Last time it was a 4B model, and you asked for the hardware, token counts and more agents. (Disclosure: I work on Atomic Agent, one of the ten.) Used: MacBook Pro M5 Max, 64 GB. Qwen 3.8 27B Q4 on llama.cpp, thinking off. Results # Agent Passed Median time Median tokens Cac…

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  1. 2026-10-30 00:34 · r/LocalLLaMA
    10 coding agents, one Qwen 3.8 27B, same llama-server: tokens and cache reuse differ more than pass rates
  2. 2026-10-29 17:09 · r/AI_Agents
    Which coding agent gets the most out of a local Qwen 3.8 27B? I lined up 10 and logged tokens, cache and sandbox blocks

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