For the doubters, Opus 4.6 at home on your own hardware.
The 15~2-% materialized on agentic coding, terminal/computer use and office/workflow tasks making it one of the best (if not the best) dense open models for local agentic work in it's size.
I received a bunch comments saying this would never be this good. But here we are.
My Qwen3.8-27B predictions:
- +15-20% intelligence jump
- MTP support landing in llama.cpp
- Best dense model for 24GB VRAM
- Will rule local agentic workflows
- Close enough to Opus 4.8 / V4-Flash that many dump subs
- Resets “good enough to self-host” for 2026
what's yours?