I'm really hoping we're in 2026's 2-month-gap between QwQ and Qwen3 right now

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QwQ was genuine next-gen performance usable on local hardware, but the massive required context (it's reasoning style was akin to "if I say every possible word, I'll notice the right one!" ) kinda made it unusable for agentic coding. It was ~2 months later that Qwen3-32B came out which delivered QwQ's peaks with usable amounts of reasoning. I know some people are having a great time with Qwen3.8-27B, and same, but I can't have a good sit-down session with it because the reasoning takes so damn l