Qwen released Qwen3-Coder-Flash, a 30.5B parameter coding model with only 3.3B active parameters, making it fast and suitable for mid-tier developer laptops. The author demonstrates running it locally using LM Studio and Open WebUI, tests its coding capabilities with Space Invaders implementation, and shows how to access it via command-line tools with tool calling support. The model performs well for coding tasks and can run efficiently on 64GB or even 32GB Macs when quantized.
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