I built a macOS app for benchmarking local LLMs. 6 test suites. Multiple providers. One workspace. Open source. There are hundreds of local models now. New ones every week. How do you actually pick one? Leaderboards test for general ability. But if you're building an agent… https://twitter.com/stevibe/status/2043736487917981701/video/1

So we know Gemma 4 is good at tool calling, but what about web coding? I threw 4 UI screenshots at three Gemma 4 models and said rebuild this, one shot, no hand-holding, just image in, code out. Model lineup: - E4B - 26B A4B (MoE) - 31B Dense (skipped the E2B this round) Let… https://twitter.com/stevibe/status/2040039108748177706/video/1

Which local models can actually handle tool calling? I built a framework to find out. 15 scenarios. 12 tools. Mocked responses. Temperature 0. No cherry-picking. Tested every Qwen3.5 size from 0.8B to 397B, and since some of you asked after the distillation tests: yes, I… https://twitter.com/stevibe/status/2036809734611988818/video/1