I finally found a local LLM I want to use every day (and it's not for coding)
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A personal account of switching from a 20B general-purpose local LLM to Qwen 3.5 9B for everyday non-coding tasks. Despite initially dismissing the Qwen family as developer-focused, the author found the 3.5 9B variant outperformed larger models in reasoning, context handling, and structured responses. It now serves as a daily offline alternative to Claude or Gemini for research, concept exploration, and general Q&A — running on modest hardware at no cost.
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A 9B model has no right being this goodWhat I actually use it for every dayIt's not plug-and-play though1 Comment
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