Qwen3.8 27B

User reports running Qwen3.8 27B (4-bit, ~16GB) in LM Studio on a MacBook Pro M5 Max with 48GB unified memory, at around 10-15 tokens/sec. Setup is LM Studio serving an OpenAI-compatible API to the Pi Coding Agent, which built a React + TypeScript dashboard from scratch over a few hours. The user says local coding agents are capable but not a drop-in replacement for Claude Code or Codex with frontier models, citing slower inference and reliability concerns.