Running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Locally for Coding Agent: My Setup & Working Config
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Hardware Component Details Machine MacBook Pro (Mac14,6) Chip Apple M2 Max - 12-core CPU (8P + 4E) Memory 64 GB unified memory Storage 512 GB SSD OS macOS 15.7 (Sequoia) AI Agent Setup I'm using the pi coding agent as my primary development assistant. It's a local-first AI coding agent that connects to local models via llama.cpp. Model: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (running via llama.cpp) How pi Connects to llama-server The pi agent communicates with llama-server via the OpenAI-compatible