Dev builds open-source Steam tag explorer with local LLM, shares Qwen3.8 coding lessons
mickabrig7 · reddit · 2026-11-06
Developer mickabrig7 built steam-tags-explorer, an open-source tool that mines daily-updated Steam tag data to surface rare tag combinations (e.g. Rogue-like + Third-Person Shooter + Action RPG: only 38 games) as game-design idea sparks. It runs fully local (Qwen3.8 FN + Strata + DeepSeek Harness on an RX 9070XT + 64GB RAM), statically in the browser with zero external dependencies, plus gamified modes like random crate unboxing.
Two hands-on takeaways:
- Qwen3.8 FN was surprisingly competent at UI generation (it even added sound effects on its own), but needed heavy supervision on everything else — given any freedom on non-UI decisions, it consistently chose the least intuitive option.
- The biggest effort went into "unslopifying" the model's prose; the tendency to overcomplicate human-facing text is stubborn.
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