If you have a 24-64GB mac, consider running Qwen3.8 27B locally at night. It's a bit slower to run locally, but if you're sleeping it's less of a problem.
Depending on your memory, you'll need to use the weaker Q4 versions but they still perform well.
It ranks higher than GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh) or Claude Opus 4.6 (max) so is great for pairing with <a href="https://github.com/kunchenguid/gnhf" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kunchenguid/gnhf for nightly experimentation, cleanup, or recommendation lists for in the morning.
I have a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 128 GB for running those sort of "background task", and my sweet spot is currently Qwen3.8 Flash-Next IQ4 at 96 GB.
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Depending on your memory, you'll need to use the weaker Q4 versions but they still perform well.
It ranks higher than GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh) or Claude Opus 4.6 (max) so is great for pairing with <a href="https://github.com/kunchenguid/gnhf" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kunchenguid/gnhf for nightly experimentation, cleanup, or recommendation lists for in the morning.
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