I tried to do agenic coding with Qwen 3.8 27B 3bit quant on a macbook air m2 24gb. It took 63 hours, but amazingly, the flight simulator worked.

I used LM Studio Bionic with Qwen 3.8 27B Q3_K_S with 57k context.

It took a staggering 63 hours to finish coding. After the first prompt "Create a beautiful, relaxing flight simulator in a single HTML page" taking 47.8 hours, it created an html file that showed the title screen that said "press any key" but pressing any keys won't advance the game.

So I wrote on the second prompt "It saids press any key to begin. I press any key but it doesn't work." It ran for 15 hours.

Now I can fly. No plane model, but it does look kinda like I'm flying forward. A bit buggy but otherwise it's working.

I did the same prompt on google ai studio, and it took 20 minutes. It was able to one-shot the flight simulator, with selectable plane models, and a smooth voxel landscape.

I also did the same prompt on qwen studio, and that took 2hrs. It also was able to one-shot the flight simulator, but this voxel landscape was buggy, rough, and had a weird shimmering effect.

Before anyone gets angry with insults, this is just for fun, to see if agentic coding is even possible on a macbook air. I'm just amazed this can run locally, even with a 3bit quant.