Practical AI
Flint vs Qwen 3.8 27B on a MacBook Pro M5: my local AI setup in VS Code
I tried a pile of local models on my MacBook Pro M5 and kept two: Flint for fast fixes at 110 tokens/s, Qwen 3.8 27B for the harder work at 26. Here is the setup, the numbers, and how I split the work between them.