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 eff

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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 eff