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Reddit r/LocalLLaMAAugust 30, 2026

Unpopular opinion Qwen 3.8 is hard to understand

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I find both Qwen 3.8 27b and Qwen 3.8 Flash Next difficult to read. Here's some examples of what I mean: **Model-visible tool set per turn** (assembled by the host at provider-request time): persona tool allowlist ∩ session tool surface ∩ tools not `deny`-classified under the active permission profile. In the above, Qwen uses the set intersection symbol as opposed to a human readable explanation. Maybe this is because it's been trained so hard on math, science, reasoning, so it's a little unders