I felt sorry for it and stopped it, 14min and the poor thing was just going around in circles.
I’m just looking at running some local llm on my m2 16GB mac and this was with the default settings for the qwen3.5 9b in LM Studio. Any pointers to get the best out of a M2?



Oh god no. Bonsai is such a waste of time! Totally a dull version of Qwen. Keeps getting basic things wrong and isn’t agentic at all.
But I’d be curious to hear if you’ve used it and had a different experience.
I personally run Qwen 3.8 27B at Q4_K_XL, but given OP’s system requirements, I’d try Bonsai instead of a regular Q2 quant or the older Qwen 3.5 9B.
M2 16 GB… ah… let’s see how Bonsai works for OP…