We must have very different workflows, I am curious about yours. What tools are you using and how are you guiding Qwen3-Coder? When I am using Claude Code, it often works for 10+ minutes at a time, so I am not aware of inference speed.
You must write very elaborate prompts for 10 minutes to be worth the wait. What permissions are you giving it and how much do you care about the generated code? How much time did you spend on initial setup?
I‘ve found that the best way for myself to do LLM assisted coding at this point in time is in a somewhat tight feedback loop. I find myself wanting to refine the code and architectural approaches a fair amount as I see them coming in and latency matters a lot to me here.
2 minutes is the worst delay. With 10 minutes, I can and do context switch to something else and use the time productively. With 2 min, I wait and get frustrated and bored.
Context switching makes you less productive compared to if you could completely finish one task before moving to the other though. in the limit an LLM that responds instantly is still better.
