Developer-Tools

A popular claim says exotic languages save tokens when AI writes your code. On real tasks that edge disappears, and the number worth optimizing is the cost of being wrong.

Qwen 3.6 27B is running at 30 tokens per second on consumer hardware and doing real development work. That shifts the question from whether local AI is viable to when it is the right call.

Serious developers are dropping paid AI subscriptions for local models and reporting it actually works. The 'it's free' pitch is real - but it obscures a different set of costs.