These "Claude-4.6-Opus" Fine Tunes of Local Models Are Usually A Downgrade

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Time and time again I find posts about these fine tunes that promise increased intelligence and reasoning with base models, and I continuously try them, realize they're botched, and delete them shortly after. I sometimes do resort to a lower quant since they are bigger, in this case, a 40b variant of Qwen 3.5 27b, but they seem to always let me down. I've resorted to not downloading any model with "Claude Opus 4.6" in the name. Kudos to everyone who tries to make the foundation models intelligent, but imo, it never works.