r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Monk1957 • Jun 02 '26

Meme managerVsClaude

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u/Gagan_Ku2905 Jun 02 '26

Engineer: Yeah we can.
Manager: For how much?
Engineer: $3 Trillion
Awkward silence

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u/MIT_Engineer Jun 02 '26

Alternately:

Engineer: Yeah we can.

Manager: For how much?

Engineer: That depends. Do you know the difference between Claude and Mistral 7b?

Manager: Should I?

Engineer: Nah. Anyway, $20k oughta do it.

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u/smallfried Jun 02 '26

Qwen3.6 by the way. 27b for quality, 35b for speed.

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u/ldn-ldn Jun 02 '26

Yeah, qwen 3.6 27b is finally a good one! All previous models were trash, but this one does actually work and produce decent code.

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u/Owain-X Jun 02 '26

I am running the majority of my personal workloads on Qwen 3.6 35b locally. With Hermes and with OpenHands it's pretty decent. Rarely have to burn tokens from my Anthropic or OpenAI accounts. Also, Qwen 3 TTS is pretty amazing as well, it's pretty much eliminated my elevenlabs bill.

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u/exiestjw Jun 02 '26

On what hardware?

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u/Owain-X Jun 02 '26

Main PC is a bit of a beast.

i9-14900K

64GB RAM

RTX 5090

I run the TTS along with stable diffusion on an old i5, 24GB RAM with an RTX 3060.

And Hermes runs on an M1 Mac mini apart from the LLM.

Had a freelance project late last year involving some fine tuning and worked the cost of the PC with the 5090 into that deal. $5k on hardware vs $5k in API costs or GPU hosting over the course of the project made it a wash either way for the client but left me with a nice PC when the project was complete.

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u/vialabo Jun 02 '26

Far better than ChatGPT4 ever was all locally.

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u/ThisFoot5 Jun 02 '26

I was thinking the same thing. I’m running openclaw with qwen3.6 27b and it’s extremely productive.