Qwen3.8 Q6 succeeds in local XML/JSON editor coloring task where others failed
megadonkeyx · reddit · 2026-08-19
A developer building a local XML/JSON editor (JsonV) in AvaloniaUI/Ctested various local models for the task of syntax coloring the XML view. Most models failed or made a mess, but using Qwen3.8 Q6 (quantized to q80) with a custom "Automaton" harness, split across a 3090 and 3060, yielded success. The author shared the specific settings used to achieve this result.
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