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Okay, with a bit of fiddling yesterday, I've now got a serious day-to-day contender to Claude Code. Pi(.)dev + unsloth/qwen3.6-35b-a3b-ud-mlx served via @lmstudio.
The video below is not sped up. It shows the agent wrapping up bootstrapping and running a small suite of UX tests, making a commit and doing some house cleaning.
Honestly: It's fast. It's "Good Enough™️". And most importantly: It's predictable.
After spending most of March and April outright fighting with Opus every single day, I'll take predictable over powerful any day now.
And I want to point out: Running it requires 20G of RAM. A clean 20G. Not less. But also NOT more.