RESEARCH↑ trendingReddit r/LocalLLaMA·4/19/2026
Same 9B Qwen weights: 19.1% in Aider vs 45.6% with a scaffold adapted to small local models
A study demonstrates that adapting the scaffolding for a small local LLM (Qwen3.5-9B) significantly improves its performance on the Aider Polyglot coding benchmark from 19.1% to 45.6%. This highlights the importance of scaffold design over inherent model weakness for local models in coding agents.
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