Laguna XS 2.1 33B A3B tested vs Qwen 35B A3B - 16GB Local LLM setup

In this video I want to check out Laguna XS 2.1 33B A3B from Poolside, is it smarter than the current champion - Qwen 3.6 35B A3B? I run through a few coding tests which are: 1. Performance 2. Memory 3. Agency 4. OpenAI Human Eval 5. Sand Physics 6. Kanban 7. Dungeon Crawler 8. Blender 9. Godot If you're interested in local LLMs, AI and homelabs - feel free to subscribe! Laguna XS: https://huggingface.co/poolside/Lagun... Qwen: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.... GitHub: https://github.com/lukesdevlab/youtube HumanEval: https://github.com/openai/human-eval Patreon:   / lukesdevlab   #localllm #localai #homelab #llamacpp #homelab #openai #qwen #35b #33b #a3b #moe #poolside #laguna Chapters: 0:00 Coming Up 0:19 Intro 0:29 Model 1:35 Tests Overview 2:33 Target System Specs 2:55 Performance 3:52 Memory 4:58 Agency 6:15 OpenAI HumanEval 8:03 Sand Physics - Laguna 11:29 Sand Physics - Qwen 14:35 Kanban - Laguna 19:50 Kanban - Qwen 22:32 Dungeon Crawler - Laguna 25:43 Dungeon Crawler - Qwen 27:49 Blender - Laguna 30:02 Blender - Qwen 31:32 Godot - Laguna 32:59 Godot - Qwen 34:35 Conclusion