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Today's 921-point HN thread confirms local models have crossed the daily-coding threshold: Qwen 3.6 MoE is the consensus pick, economics now favor on-prem routing for constrained tasks, and the remaining gaps are harness problems, not capability ceilings. Microsoft shipped Work IQ API to GA today, turning M365 data into the competitive moat for enterprise agents billed on Copilot Credits. OpenAI's audited $34B 2025 spend and the DOJ's national security designation for xAI both set the terms for AI's next phase.