I had a similar experience this week. I tried ollama like last year and thought it was kinda cool but ultimately not that helpful.

Over the weekend I got Qwen3.6 35b running Hermes on my gaming PC and it made me a whole back testing application for trading. Everything from planning out the work, breaking it into tasks, spinning up agents for blocks of work, writing tests, the whole shebang.

It took like two work days of me prodding it once in awhile but it’s still impressive