I use Qwen3.6-A3B locally on my Strix halo for testing simple prompts like "make the largest polygonal picture frames you can, each from a single 8 foot 2x4. Start with 3 sided and go up from there, lay them all out in a 9 by 9 grid."

It's a cheap (off-grid solar power, so ~free) way to sharpen the harness: if less-than-SOTA models can succeed then the tool surface is clear. Bumping up to 3.6 Pro has been a nice middle step closer to the frontier models without spending an arm and a leg on credits.