Dev's rule of thumb: Qwen 27B cuts a 3-day task down to 4 hours
Altruistic_Heat_9531 · reddit · 2026-09-03
A developer shares expectations-setting experience: debugging or implementing a feature took 3 days (15 active hours) without an LLM, but 4 hours with Qwen 27B. He finds 0.5 tok/s acceptable for overnight codebase-wide analysis and deep research tasks.
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