Qwen for personal coding alongside Claude at work

As a software engineer, this user relies on Claude for professional software engineering but uses Qwen Flash Next for personal projects, describing it as genuinely useful for real work and, in their opinion, better than Opus 4.6. Qwen 3.8 27B is also called very usable, though slower on the author's hardware and not quite as strong. The comparison is notable because the local models are used for actual coding rather than benchmarks, while the exact local hardware and runtime were not provided.