I wish these releases came out earlier in the day so I could try them during my work day instead of waiting until the next.

I have been doing the same for quite a while now. Composer 2.5 is incredible when you’re working in the loop.

When you normalise for time and money, Composer 2.5 is way, way, way, way better than anything else out there. Yes it requires more babysitting, but that's a good thing.

I’ve got qwen3.6 27b running on my media server atm. Given that I built on top of what I already had, it didn’t cost me nearly that amount. I’ve been running 2x 5060 ti 16gbs, and when using text only and nvfp4, I can run the model with 200k context length and roughly 50-60 toks. It’s very good, and costed me about $800 after buying the gpus from microcenter.