Friday fun. Same Minecraft prompt, Claude Code on Fable5 Max vs a 27b Codehamr on Ollama
Friday felt like the right day to build something completely unnecessary, so I built Minecraft twice.
Left side is Claude Code on Fable5 Max, about the strongest setup you can currently rent. Right side is qwen3.6 27b, fully local through Ollama, driven by codehamr, a small Go coding agent I wrote.
Honesty first. This says very little about model intelligence. Every current model has digested hundreds of Minecraft clones during training, so a prompt like this is closer to recall than to engineering. That is also why a 27b can hang with a frontier model on this task at all.
Still fun though. The local side took 5 or 6 prompts and roughly 30 minutes. Terrain, chunks, placing and breaking blocks, hotbar, all there after the first or second attempt.
And then the sheep. Both models cruised through the hard parts and both faceplanted on the sheep, each in its own way. The local one decided sheep live in the sky now.
Agent code lives at github.com/codehamr/codehamr if anyone wants to poke around. All free all open source all optimized for local ollama usage.