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Story time: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on my Strix Halo laptop vs Claude Opus 5.5 on the same feature

For the last few weeks most of my coding has been done locally with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, so I gave it and Opus 5.5 the same high complexity feature to build on LlamaStash (a complex and large Rust project) and compared the results. Setup : ASUS ROG Flow Z13 (Strix Halo, 128GB), Flash-Next at xhigh e…

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  1. 2026-10-08 00:36 · r/LocalLLM
    Local Qwen3.8-Flash on a DGX Spark vs Claude Opus 5.5: 21 graded tasks, 3 harnesses. Matches Opus on everyday coding, 70% on hard tasks, and the harness settings matter more than you'd think
  2. 2026-10-06 11:09 · r/LocalLLM
    Story time: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on my Strix Halo laptop vs Claude Opus 5.5 on the same feature
  3. 2026-10-06 11:08 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Story time: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on my Strix Halo laptop vs Claude Opus 5.5 on the same feature

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