And I switch to Qwen3.8-27B (the Perplexity Pro version that works well with MLX-Serve) or GLM-5.3-Flash (sushi) when I need to do serious work offline.
As a general harness for coding, etc. I use Swival.dev . Configured to use Clef for model routing, with Qwen-35B-A3B for documentation tasks, Ornith to ask questions about code, and various GPT models from a ChatGPT subscription for more difficult tasks.
For music, pictures, etc. MLX-Serve is all I use, with the recommended models. It's really nice.
And as a general agent for research, etc. I absolutely love Perplexity. This is by far the AI produce I use the most, ever since it's been available.
It's a little bit sad that they are forcing people to use Perplexity Computer, because it's so expensive. But it works incredibly well.
Perplexity can now run locally, but even though they include the best Qwen3.8 quant in my experience, the Perplexity tool itself has major issues with context management and tool calling. So, when that doesn't work, I fall back to MLX-Serve and Swival with the Chrome MCP server.
For agentic web browsing, I can't live without Comet anymore. So many websites are painful to use, and finding the right buttons to click even to perform very common tasks is a challenge. So, I frequently just ask Comet to do it for me. I also use it to compare products, compare places on AirBNB, write personalized messages on Instagram, etc.
As for an OpenClaw-like tool, I'm using NBClaw. I was initially very excited about it. Look, I can just send messages on Signal and let the agent do work for me! And I occasionally found it useful to remotely fix issues on the host it was running on, or long tasks such as making sure that all my projects worked with a new version of the Zig compiler. It became a replacement for Perplexity because, hey, it's cool, everything's running locally, using my own web browser, etc.
But eventually, I used it less and less. Nowadays, I still enjoy the fact that it's sending me a summary of cool things it found in Hacker News and research papers on topics I'm interesting in. But that's pretty much it. I don't use it much for agentic tasks anymore. It still happens (I recently used it to fix a bug in an opensource project while I was on the bus), but mostly just only when I ran out of Perplexity Computer credits.