Flint 40B-A2.5B vs Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
The task was one prompt: a 20 s Halloween chain reaction in Three.js (flint strikes steel → spark lights a fuse → fuse fires a rocket → rocket knocks a marble down a spiral → marble tips a match into a jack-o'-lantern), follow camera, seamless rewind loop.
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Key points
- Three small MoEs dropped within a couple of weeks, so I put all of them in the same seat.
- In Fusion mode Opus 5.5 plans and reviews, and three workers on the local model write the code in parallel.
- Only the worker model changes between runs.
- Metric Flint 40B-A2.5B Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B
Sources (1)
- [1]Flint 40B-A2.5B vs Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightningr/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 23, 12:21 AM
The task was one prompt: a 20 s Halloween chain reaction in Three.js (flint strikes steel → spark lights a fuse → fuse fires a rocket → rocket knocks a marble down a spiral → marble tips a match into a jack-o'-lantern), follow camera, seamless rewind loop.
Three small MoEs dropped within a couple of weeks, so I put all of them in the same seat.
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