{"slug": "qwen-3-8-swift-1-5-flash-next-is-nuts", "title": "Qwen 3.8/Swift 1.5 Flash Next is nuts", "summary": "A user reported that running the OpenCode agent on a locally hosted Qwen 3.8 Flash Next model, connected via MCP, could drive the SolidCraft design tool despite near-random crashes, which the agent diagnosed and worked around with custom agent rules. The user said the agent-built designs would have taken twice as long by hand, and that agent-assisted design turns an inexpressible face/edge editing process into a vague description refined over a few prompts. The user also said Layerling proved more reliable than their own effort at chamfers, fillets, loft and hollow functionality, and praised its self-hostability.", "body_md": "Oh, I hadn’t spotted that.\n\nIn the meantime, I’m playing around with Layerling a bit, and…I won’t lie, it’s better than my effort At least, it’s a bit more reliable with chamfers and fillets, and it has better loft and hollow functionality. Also, it’s self-hostable, which I like.\n\nI did play with SolidCraft earlier, just getting my OpenCode agent (using local Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, obviously) to drive it with MCP. It’s pretty crash-happy, but I managed to get around that with some agent rules (the agent managed to diagnose the near-random crashes, and design a workflow that avoided them). Still, it managed to build a couple of designs that would’ve taken me twice as long.\n\nI’m finding that designing prints using an agent is…actually pretty brilliant. It turns it from a frustrating “I don’t even know the words to explain what I need to do to this face/edge/etc” process into a vague description, then a few prompts to refine the output.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen-3-8-swift-1-5-flash-next-is-nuts", "canonical_source": "https://forum.level1techs.com/t/qwen-3-8-swift-1-5-flash-next-is-nuts/258505#post_9", "published_at": "2026-10-26 21:31:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-26 21:41:49.757733+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "large-language-models", "agent-protocols"], "entities": ["Qwen 3.8 Flash Next", "OpenCode", "SolidCraft", "Layerling", "MCP"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen-3-8-swift-1-5-flash-next-is-nuts", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen-3-8-swift-1-5-flash-next-is-nuts.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen-3-8-swift-1-5-flash-next-is-nuts.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen-3-8-swift-1-5-flash-next-is-nuts.jsonld"}}