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I tried to do agenic coding with Qwen 3.8 27B 3bit quant on a macbook air m2 24gb. It took 63 hours, but amazingly, the flight simulator worked.

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I used LM Studio Bionic with Qwen 3.8 27B Q3_K_S with 57k context. It took a staggering 63 hours to finish coding. After the first prompt "Create a beautiful, relaxing flight simulator in a single HTML page" taking 47.8 hours, it created an html file that showed the title screen that said "press an…

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  1. 2026-08-21 23:19 · r/LocalLLaMA
    I tried to do agenic coding with Qwen 3.8 27B 3bit quant on a macbook air m2 24gb. It took 63 hours, but amazingly, the flight simulator worked.

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