It depends what you’re using it for. Real time interactive Claude code session? No, it’s kind of impractical.

But if you already have agent loops dialed in (For example I have one that uses a browser testing framework), it wouldn’t really affect me at all if it crunched away at 7 tokens per second all night long.

Not really, you can do great things without them. I've been summarizing hundreds of documents. I've added MCP servers to my internal business tools (Elixir apps) and can chat with the Nous Hermes agent over Telegram about pending orders, inventory level, historical product prices, etc., without having to click/dick around with a web UI.

Sure, it cannot replace SOTA models for agentic coding, except for small, well-scoped refactorings. But even a model like ministral-3:8b or qwen3.5:9b is a boon for so many smaller use cases!