Tuning Qwen3.8-27B and Oh My Pi as a local coding agent on two RTX 3090s
Average wait per turn dropped from 28s to 7s after five omp setting changes: explicit effort level per role, a 6,000-7,500 token thinking budget, maxTokens raised from 8,192 to 32,768, tool output over 10 KB written to file, and at most 4 subagents.
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