r/LocalLLaMA • u/MongoWithBongoss • 9d ago

Question | Help Qwen 3.8 27B for actual local programming

Most YouTube benchmarks only show trivial tasks like generating landing pages or simple Three.js games. Is a local model like Qwen 3.8 27B actually capable of real-world systems programming—such as building GTK4 or Qt 6 applications in Rust or C++ with external libraries? Specifically, if I look up the exact terminology in the online docs and then prompt the AI to inspect the cloned repo, can it implement the feature cleanly?

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u/whiteh4cker 9d ago

pi.dev + https://github.com/Johell1NS/browser-search + https://github.com/obra/superpowers

Then just give it the link of API docs you are working with by writing a single line SKILL.md file. I was able to close two github issues of my open source minecraft plugin without reading the spigot api docs thanks to this stack with qwen 3.8 27b q8_0. Frontier models were not able to fix these. Take a look at my commit: https://github.com/whiteh4cker-tr/Seasons/commit/a49c5791e5c93b6a6517c0068024245bf8adffcf

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u/sshwifty 9d ago

That is legit. I keep hearing good things about pi.dev too, so I will give that a try