Evening experiment: could the local Qwen3-Coder 30B on my server write a post for this blog?
- Fell: Claude Code pointed at Colibri sent a 19,545-token opening request and was still reading it after 84 minutes. Stopped it. Colibri kept reading anyway.
- Got up: sent the same brief as one plain request to Colibri and to Ollama. Both answered in 10 to 14 minutes with fluent, well-structured drafts.
- Learned: I had told them to mark anything they were unsure of. Between them: one mark, 22 errors, two references to pages that do not exist, and one draft that would have broken the site build.
Wrote it up: Can a local 30B model write my blog?, with the version I trust: What model weights are.