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Qwen3.5 Showdown: 27B Q8 vs 35B-A3B Q8 — Real-World Testing for Local AI featured image

Qwen3.5 Showdown: 27B Q8 vs 35B-A3B Q8 — Real-World Testing for Local AI

A real-world comparison of Qwen3.5 27B Q8 and 35B-A3B Q8 running locally on a dual RTX 3090 homelab — which one actually belongs in your daily workflow?

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Pydantic and Pydantic-AI: Type Safety That Actually Earns Its Keep featured image

Pydantic and Pydantic-AI: Type Safety That Actually Earns Its Keep

Pydantic is one of those libraries I underestimated until the day it saved me four hours of debugging. Here's what it actually does, where it hurts, and why Pydantic-AI has me …

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Run your own AI LLM in two commands

Set up your own AI chatbot locally using Meta's Llama model and Docker in just two commands

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