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Headless Screenshot Feedback Loop Lets 30B Local Agent Complete C Raytracer

June 17, 2026

Using a headless screenshot-based visual feedback loop, a Qwen3 27B local agent completed a raytraced FPS demo in pure C where single-shot prompting failed for both it and Claude Opus. The key finding is that iterative visual feedback — not model size — was the critical variable enabling task completion.

HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU

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builderYou can replicate this harness pattern — headless render, screenshot, feedback loop — to extend local 30B models to tasks that require visual validation without a larger model.

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researcherThe result suggests visual feedback loops compensate significantly for model capability gaps; worth quantifying the loop contribution vs. model size systematically.

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