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Working on GitHub Copilot @github @microsoft. Distinguished Slopopotamus. Wrong 50% of the time. My views.

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Been using Qwen 3.8 27B (Q4) locally on 64GB of VRAM. Here is the verdict: SLOW 18 tps with ZERO system prompt to process and that degrades significantly with a harness system prompt and as the context window grows. RIP if you have to compact. I had it implement this PRD and it's been running for 6 hours. By comparison Grok 4.6 and Kimi K3 hosted finished in about ~30 minutes. High hopes, but these 27B variants are too dense. This is not a consumer grade local model - and I consider consumer grade to be anything up to $5000.

Been using Qwen 3.8 27B (Q4) locally on 64GB of VRAM. Here is the verdict: SLOW 18 tps with ZERO system prompt to process and that degrades significantly with a harness system prompt and as the context window grows. RIP if you have to compact. I had it implement this PRD and it's been running for 6 hours. By comparison Grok 4.6 and Kimi K3 hosted finished in about ~30 minutes. High hopes, but these 27B variants are too dense. This is not a consumer grade local model - and I consider consumer grade to be anything up to $5000.

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Qwen3-Coder 30B running locally in the @GitHub Copilot app (ollama) spitting ~85 tokens per second on 96GB VRAM. It's not Sol, but we're getting somewhere.

Qwen3-Coder 30B running locally in the @GitHub Copilot app (ollama) spitting ~85 tokens per second on 96GB VRAM. It's not Sol, but we're getting somewhere.

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I remember when building a date picker was one of the hardest things you could do in frontend dev. This was just me telling @GitHub Copilot "/grill-me lets make a date picker". It's really an incredible time to be doing this job. Huge thanks to Matt Pocock for grill-me.

I remember when building a date picker was one of the hardest things you could do in frontend dev. This was just me telling @GitHub Copilot "/grill-me lets make a date picker". It's really an incredible time to be doing this job. Huge thanks to Matt Pocock for grill-me.

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Engineer who works on the terminal for Visual Studio Code just showed me that the latest release autocompletes git branch names...🤯 Thanks, Megan!

Engineer who works on the terminal for Visual Studio Code just showed me that the latest release autocompletes git branch names...🤯 Thanks, Megan!

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The integration between the Copilot CLI and Visual Studio Code is actually brilliant. Terminal tab titles are now updated by the agent in realtime and you'll see a 🤖 icon while the agent is working. It's always the little things, ya'll.

The integration between the Copilot CLI and Visual Studio Code is actually brilliant. Terminal tab titles are now updated by the agent in realtime and you'll see a 🤖 icon while the agent is working. It's always the little things, ya'll.

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