🎬 **New Video: Qwen 3.5 9B vs PowerBASIC 10 Fine-Tuned Model**

[Theo Gottwald]

🔥 **Side-by-Side Coding Showdown for PowerBASIC Developers**

Hello PowerBASIC friends, 👋

I made a new video where we test the **original Qwen 3.5 9B model** against the **same model fine-tuned specifically for PowerBASIC 10**.

The question is simple:

👉 **Can fine-tuning really make a visible difference for PowerBASIC coding?**
👉 **Does a PB10-specialized model give better answers than the original base model?**

In the video, both models are tested side by side with real PowerBASIC-related prompts.

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## 🧪 What we tested

✅ **Test 1:**
The fine-tuned model gives the better PowerBASIC 10 solution.

✅ **Test 2:**
The original model gives a long, general explanation.
The fine-tuned model gives a short, targeted PB10 answer.

✅ **Test 3:**
The original model can still get very good results if it uses the **SindByte MCP Server** and Internet search.
But the fine-tuned model already knows the solution immediately.

✅ **Test 4:**
We switch the fine-tuned model from **Q4** to **Q8** and compare the quality improvement.

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## 💡 Main conclusion

A general AI model can become very powerful when it has access to tools, MCP servers, and Internet search.

But a **fine-tuned specialist model** has a big advantage:

🚀 It answers faster
🎯 It is more focused
🧠 It already knows PowerBASIC-specific details
🛠� It produces more practical PB10 code
📉 It needs less explanation and less correction

For PowerBASIC developers, this is especially interesting because many general AI models do not know enough about real PB10 syntax, compiler behavior, and coding conventions.

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## 🧰 Also shown in the video

The video also demonstrates how useful a local MCP setup can be.

With the **SindByte MCP Server**, even the original model can search, use tools, and improve its results when it does not know the answer directly.

So the strongest setup may be:

⭐ **Fine-tuned PowerBASIC model**
➕ **local MCP Server tools**
➕ **Internet search when needed**

That combination gives both:

✅ built-in specialist knowledge
✅ external tool power
✅ better real-world coding workflow

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## 🎥 Video title

**Qwen 3.5 9B vs PB10 Fine-Tuned: PowerBASIC 10 Coding Showdown**

📺 Watch the video here:
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## 🔗 Links

🌐 SindByte MCP Server:
https://smart-ai-robot.com/en/index.html

🐦 Follow me on X:
https://x.com/TheoGottwald

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## ❓Question for the forum

What would you prefer for PowerBASIC work?

**A)** A large general model with MCP tools and Internet search
**B)** A smaller fine-tuned PowerBASIC specialist model
**C)** Both together

My current impression:
👉 **The fine-tuned model is clearly better for direct PB10 coding, but MCP tools make the full setup much stronger.**

Looking forward to your opinions and test ideas! 🚀

Qwen 3.5 9B Q4-Q8 PB 10 optimized for download.*

*Use with LM-Studio, Ollama etc.