Complete no-brainer to get it as a backup with Crush. I've been using it for read-only analysis and implementing already planned tasks with pretty good results. It has a slight habit of expanding scope without being asked. Sometimes it's a good thing, sometimes it does useless work or messes things up a bit.

So Harmony? Or something older? Since Z.ai also claim the thinking mode does tool calling and reasoning interwoven, would make sense it was straight up OpenAI's Harmony.

> in theory, I could get a "relatively" cheap Mac Studio and run this locally

In practice, it'll be incredible slow and you'll quickly regret spending that much money on it instead of just using paid APIs until proper hardware gets cheaper / models get smaller.

The model output also IMO look significantly more beautiful than GLM-4.6; no doubt in part helped by ample distillation data from the closed-source models. Still, not complaining, I'd much prefer a cheap and open-source model vs. a more-expensive closed-source one.