DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on a Consumer GPU: When Local Coding Agents Make Sense

For years, running a truly autonomous coding agent on a modest consumer GPU felt out of reach. With Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and the Pi agentic harness, I saw a level of capability that surprised me. But when DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 was released on Friday, the benchmarks suggested it was now a viable option …
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