Today, a Hacker News thread asked a simple question : “Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?”1 500+ comments later, a clear picture emerged of the local coding stack. Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B dominates model mentions at 33%, followed by the 27B variant at 20%. DeepSeek Pro & Gemma4 31B round out the top four. The common thread : mixture-of-experts architectures that run fast on consumer hardware.2 On the agent side, Pi leads at 49% with OpenCode close behind at 45%. Both...

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