Two models, two futures: Qwen 3.6 vs Opus 4.7

Two major model releases today: Opus 4.7 and Qwen 3.6. I run an 18-task agentic coding benchmark that takes 3-5 hours. Real software engineering work - tool use, multi-file edits, complex reasoning. Qwen 3.6 is by far the best self-hosted model I&rsquo;ve tested. It scores better than state-of-the-art 120B parameter models. I get 230 tok/s on my 5090 with 262k context and VRAM to spare. It scores…