Coding with Qwen 27B on a MacBook Air took 63 hours
HyperFoci · reddit · 2026-08-22
A developer ran agentic coding using a 3-bit quantized Qwen 2.5 27B model on a 24GB MacBook Air M2 via LM Studio. The process took a staggering 63 hours to produce a working flight simulator after fixing an initial bug. In contrast, the same prompt took 20 minutes on Google AI Studio and 2 hours on Qwen Studio, delivering better results.
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