In addition to making people stupid, I wonder what affect will LLMs like Claude will have on programmers? How will new programmers learn if companies start using Claude?
In addition to making people stupid, I wonder what affect will LLMs like Claude will have on programmers? How will new programmers learn if companies start using Claude?
They can also make you smarter if you use them right. Key is to use local models and not giving the techbros any money.
That’s on my to-do list. I’m currently reworking my entire build because I realized I had enough last generation parts to build a media server. Once I have windows set up to only run on VM and get my stuff moved and backed up I’m going to install an LLM
I recommend Qwen3.6, either the 27B dense or the 35B MoE model. Both outstanding for local models.
What hardware are you using?
I am using qwen3.5 9b. And it is barely working.
I have a Radeon RX 7800 XT.
Qwen 3.5-9b is blazingly fast on it. However while it’s its impressive for its size, it has its limitations. Complex tasks with several steps are too much for it.
So now I run the 3.6-35B model with llama.cpp It’s too big for my VRAM so I had to split it: everything that doesn’t fit on the graphics’s card runs in the normal RAM. That slows everything down, but with the right flags I get a bit over 20 tokens/s.
If you have problems with speed and you’re using ollama I would replace it with something faster like llama.cpp.
Keep telling yourself that
Sure! How much experience do you have with LLMs?