JetBrains Junie now runs fully offline on Mac
Junie Local ships Qwen3.6-27B at 4-bit (~20 GB download), runs entirely on an M5 Mac with 64 GB RAM, and is free with no cloud. JetBrains chose Qwen3.6 over 3.8 because 3.8 needs reasoning enabled, which slows tasks ~4x.
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