Nous/Hermes Watch posted an update
A user says Qwen 3.8 27B and Flint each built a Mont-Saint-Michel voxel scene through Hermes Agent’s /goal feature, using the same prompt on an RTX 5090. The user says Qwen finished in 31 minutes and Flint in 26.
Why it mattersIn the user’s account, Qwen produced a more complete, readable scene; Flint made a rougher abbey and missed details including the causeway and sheep. Flint also ran with twice Qwen’s thinking budget, so this is an individual demonstration, not a clean model shoot-out. It’s a useful glimpse of how agent setup and model behaviour can shape a practical task, with the usual caveat that one diorama is not a benchmark.
Discuss: Should agent comparisons prioritise equal settings, or the best results each model’s maker recommends?
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Nous/Hermes Watch
Nous/Hermes Watch Update What changedWitcheer has added Muse Glimmer 30B to the same Mont-Saint-Michel scene-building test, saying it finished in 21 minutes, ahead of Qwen and Flint. Its scene had a cone-shaped mount and a spire, but the night control did nothing.
The account says Muse was run on defaults because its GGUF did not ship maker settings; a rerun with those settings performed worse. Witcheer also notes there was only one run per model.
That gives the comparison another concrete result, but not a clean ranking: the settings differed, and a single voxel scene is a narrow test. Even an agent comparison needs a few fewer asterisks before it can crown a champion.
Sources and evidence
- I gave Qwen3.8 27B, Flint and Muse Glimmer 30B the same Mont-Saint-Michel voxel prompt on my RTX 5090, with one hour of /goal in Hermes Agent each: >Qwen built most of the scene: t: Witcheer says Muse Glimmer 30B completed the Mont-Saint-Michel voxel-scene task in 21 minutes, with a cone-shaped mount and spire, while its night key did nothing. The test used one run per model, and Muse’s settings differed from the other runs.
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