"Qwen3.8 27B wrote a playable first person shooter start to finish on 2 used 3090s in my apartment. No cloud. No API key. No subscription. 687 steps. 87.9M tokens in, 822k out. 5 hours 11 minutes of model time plus 58 minutes of tool calls. The agent loop never broke once. And it plays. Enemies..."
> ...spawn and push you, the gun kicks, shadows stretch across the whole block while the sun goes down behind the towers. I sat there clearing waves instead of grading the output. Same shooter prompt I threw at the frontier models a few weeks ago. That time the tokens went to somebody elses datacenter. This time nothing left the flat. 87.9 million tokens through my own cards. On an API that run has a price tag. Here it has an electricity bill. 60 tok/s all the way through. Slower than frontier, and it stops mattering when the thing works through the night while you sleep. Local models were a toy 18 months ago. This one finished a game. > > > Play now! Choose Build 2 Qwen3.8 27B > > > https:// > alesha-pro.github.io/bench-portal/ > > > — Alexey Fateev
Source: https://x.com/superalesha/status/2089126766854238421