Same game built twice: Opus alone vs Opus planning + local Qwen coding. 16 min vs 42 min, $2.52 vs $0.62
most of my Opus bill is output tokens, Opus typing out every line of code. so I tried keeping Opus for the thinking and moving the typing to a local model the job: a 5-level pixel platformer from one spec, built twice on a MacBook Pro M5 Max in Fusion mode on Atomic Agent Opus 5.5 alone, the usual…
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- 2026-10-25 23:21 · r/ClaudeAI
Same game built twice: Opus alone vs Opus planning + local Qwen coding. 16 min vs 42 min, $2.52 vs $0.62