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Forget Claude Code. All you need is Qwen3.8-Flash-Next running locally for agentic coding

Community description: Agentic coding on a Strix Halo laptop with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next. Going head to head with Opus 5.5

Dev.to | Oct 6, 2026 | Deepu K Sasidharan

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Then review it using both Opus and Flash-Next. So both GPT and Flash-Next picked 89 while Opus picked 88. Medium Complexity Task: Opus 5. 5 (xhigh effort) vs Flash-Next (xhigh effort) I asked both Opus 5. 5 (xhigh effort) and Flash-Next (xhigh effort) to suggest some new features for LlamaStash.

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