Qwen 3.5 vs Ornith 1.0 9B Models, Same Hardware, Same Quant as Coding Agents
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I ran Qwen 3.5 9B and Ornith 1.0 9B, both at Q8, on the same 16GB Mac, through the same multi-step agent tests. Neither is agent-ready. But they're not ready in interesting, different ways — and the most surprising result is that the native tool-calling API made both of them worse on easy tasks than plain prompting did. If you run local models, you've seen the recommendation threads: "Qwen 3.5 9B is great for its size," "Ornith 1.0 is impressive." Both are true in a chat window. The question I…
1Key Takeaways
- I ran Qwen 3.5 9B and Ornith 1.0 9B, both at Q8, on the same 16GB Mac, through the same multi-step agent tests.
- But they're not ready in interesting, different ways — and the most surprising result is that the native tool-calling API made both of them worse on easy tasks than plain prompting did.
- If you run local models, you've seen the recommendation threads: "Qwen 3.5 9B is great for its size," "Ornith 1.0 is impressive." Both are true in a chat window.
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3Why it matters
Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that i ran Qwen 3.5 9B and Ornith 1.0 9B, both at Q8, on the same 16GB Mac, through the same multi-step agent tests.
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