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Reddit r/LocalLLaMASeptember 7, 2026

Are you running Qwen 3.8 27b or Qwen Flash Next?

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Curious about what people are preferring, if you have the hardware. I have m3 Max 96gb and both run, and largely feel identical, but prefill on qwen 27b is faster. Is there anything / anyone working on anything to improve pp with mlx? Branching question: is anyone working on a harness that works with no reasoning? This interests me ever since Jetbrains shared that they're using 3.6 with reasoning off entirely: https://blog.jetbrains.com/junie/2026/08/qwen-for-junie/ Feel like there must be somet