Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

For anyone who has been (inadvisably) taking my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark seriously as a robust way to test models, here are pelicans from this morning’s two big model …

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