I Was WRONG About Local LLM vs Claude on M5 macbook pro — TESTED | qwen 3.6 35b, 27b, and gtp oss

Can a $2400 MacBook Pro M5 actually replace Claude? I put three local LLMs — Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, Qwen3.6-27B, and gpt-oss-20b — head-to-head against Claude Sonnet 4.6 inside VS Code. The results were not what I expected. In this video I run all three open-weight models locally in LM Studio on the base M5 MacBook Pro, benchmark real tokens-per-second, then ask each one to build a solar system website. Finally, I open the broken project in VS Code and let Claude Sonnet 4.6 (via GitHub Copilot) fix it — and the difference is wild. If you're a developer thinking about running local AI on Apple Silicon, a Mac buyer wondering whether the M5 is enough for LLM run locally, or you just want to see where open models stand against Anthropic's best, this one is for you. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 🔗 TOOLS USED LM Studio (run LLMs locally on Mac): https://lmstudio.ai/ Ollama (alternative local runner): https://ollama.com/ Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/ GitHub Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot 🤖 MODELS TESTED Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (Apache 2.0, Alibaba): https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-3... Qwen3.6-27B (Apache 2.0, Alibaba): https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B gpt-oss-20b (Apache 2.0, OpenAI): https://huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss... Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic): https://www.anthropic.com/claude/sonnet 💻 MY MACHINE MacBook Pro M5 chip 14 inch 32gb unified memory (ram) 10 core cpu 10 core gpu 1 tb ssd (Released Oct 22, 2025 — starting at $1,599) Apple newsroom: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/ 📝 NOTES Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model — only ~3B of its 35B parameters activate per token, which is exactly why it runs 6–7x faster than the dense Qwen3.6-27B on the same Mac. If you've been wondering why "bigger" models sometimes feel snappier, that's the secret. 👋 ABOUT ME I'm Vikramjit. This channel is where I test AI tools, run local LLMs on Apple Silicon, and document what actually works for developers. 🔔 If you got value from this, please Like, Subscribe, and tell me in the comments which model YOU want me to test next. I read every comment. 📬 SOCIALS / CONTACT YouTube:    / @iamvikramjit   #LocalLLM #MacBookProM5 #Qwen3 #gptoss #ClaudeSonnet #LMStudio #AppleSilicon #AIcoding #Ollama #OpenSourceAI