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Reddit r/LocalLLaMASeptember 24, 2026

Qwen-3.8-27B is good enough that I stopped using API

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Many a praise have been sung on Qwen-3.8, but here is mine. Qwen-3.8 and I had a rocky start, because it thinks so much. Watching it working is painful, so you have to stop doing that. You have to let it work unsupervised. And that's okay, because it really is able to complete complex refactors on its own, making good decisions along the way. Not perfect, but hey, neither is API. The model quant is Q4_K_S, context is quantized to Q8_0, which seems to be okay, quality wise. I use the official Qwe