Ran Qwen3.6-27B locally on my Mac for a few weeks. Every database it created came out broken in one way or another. Opus 5 has been cleaning up after it, and doing a great job. Not a fair comparison - one of these is on my desk runs for free. What I keep coming back to: I'd have gotten a lot more out of the local model if I'd accepted from the start how much more work my prompting needed. I handed it frontier-model instructions and expected it to fill in the gaps. It couldn't. #AI #LocalLLM