Local Flash Next beats Gemini Flash 3.8 on web game dev: 2 days vs 5 minutes, far better output
Forward_Jackfruit813 · reddit · 2026-09-16
A developer ran identical one-shot prompts comparing Gemini Flash 3.8 and a local UDQ2KDXL quant of Flash Next for a Backrooms-style exploration game. Gemini finished in 5 minutes but produced a low-effort, unfun result and wiped his weekly AGY-CLI limit on a $20 plan. Flash Next on a Strix Halo (250 prefill / 28 tps, 131k context) took two full days, one spent on end-to-end QA and playtesting, and felt 'several generations ahead' in prop detail and immersion. His workflow uses a custom MCP to standardize handheld inputs plus Blender MCP for models; he expects a Qwen 35B MoE with engrams at 40 tps / 262k context to make his setup fully local, 'feels like opus 4.8 at home.'
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