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Qwen-3.5 9B matches Claude performance on home automation task despite slower speed

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A user compared the performance of Anthropic's Claude and Alibaba's Qwen-3.5 9B on a home assistant automation task. While Claude completed the task in 20 seconds, the Qwen model, running on a 5.5-year-old laptop without a dedicated GPU, took 240 seconds. Despite the speed difference, both models produced nearly identical and correct results, with similar annotations. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates that smaller, locally run models can achieve comparable results to larger cloud-based models for specific tasks, albeit with longer processing times.

RANK_REASON User comparison of two models on a specific task.

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Qwen-3.5 9B matches Claude performance on home automation task despite slower speed

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Interesting: i gave claude and Qwen 3.5 9B the same problem to solve do a small home assistant automation. Qwen was running on my 5.5 year old Laptop (8 core Ry

    Interesting: i gave claude and Qwen 3.5 9B the same problem to solve do a small home assistant automation. Qwen was running on my 5.5 year old Laptop (8 core Ryzen, 32gig Ram no useable GPU(at least i think so)) claude was done in 20sec, my Laptop needed 240sec but the endresult …

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