Qwen 3.6 Plus Preview just dropped on OpenRouter, tested it hard on agentic coding tasks
r/LocalLLaMA
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Generative AI
AI Hardware
Open Source AI
NOTE: I used claude to help me write this. The findings are mine, the tests were real. I just want this to be correct and I suck at typing and I want to pass on something useful to others! So this thing showed up yesterday on OpenRouter with zero fanfare. Free, 179B params, 1M context. I've been making myself a tool, a custom agentic coding assistant that runs locally in my IDE, and I've been testing models against it to figure out what GPU to buy for a new workstation build.