Qwen 3.6 is the first local model that actually feels worth the effort for me

I spent some time yesterday after work trying out the new qwen3.6-35b-a3b model, and at least for me it's the first time that I actually felt that a local model wasn't of a pain to use than it was worth. I've been using LLMs in my personal/throwaway projects for a few months, for the kind of code that I don't feel any passion writing (most UI XML in Avalonia, embedded systems C++), and I used to have Sonet and Opus for free thanks to Github's student program but they cancelled that.