I just started using it on an m4 max 128 and it's the first time since buying the machine a year ago that it feels like local llm "just works" for reasonably decent coding.
Use pi though; claude code has way too much bootstrap context; slows everything way down.
I've been using qwen3.5 (122b) with claude code for months, and it's definitely dumber than sonnet/opus, but it works through things reasonably well (i.e. writes half-decent code and tool calls usually work), and I pretty much never run into loops now.
and make sure you're following Unsloth's recommendations for temperature/etc.
I'd compare this more to the early days of the internet.
Is it necessary to get involved right now? Perhaps not.
Is it neat to be part of a transformative historical change just getting it's feet under it? Yep.
Use pi though; claude code has way too much bootstrap context; slows everything way down.