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Reddit r/LocalLLaMAAugust 20, 2026

I see some community discussions on Hugging Face about Qwen3.8 27B model being not very good, but it seems people are mostly have positive experiences here. So which is it?

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Personally, I gave up on 3.8 and went back to 3.6. I tried base, FP8, and few NVFP4 versions, and various parameter tunes for temperature etc., as well as chat template 'fix' or changes, among others, but 3.8 just didn't work for me. Is it just me? It makes me wonder if it's just all LLMs hyping up the 3.8 model. Edit: it was software tasks and general chatting. I didn't even get to personal assistant/agent part yet. Especially when chatting generally, all versions/quants would go on a crazy loo