I was testing local models to replace some Anthropic API calls — cost, latency, privacy, the usual reasons — when I asked Qwen3.6-35B-A3B to draw me a pelican in ASCII art. What showed up in the terminal made me do a double-take. I copied the exact prompt, sent it to Claude Opus 4.7 via API, and the result was... worse. Considerably worse. I sat there for five minutes staring at both outputs in a