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Does Qwen3.8-27B overthink simple tasks for anyone else?

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I’m using Qwen3.8-27B Q3 with Ollama + DSH. The biggest issue is that it overthinks way too much, even on Low or Minimal reasoning. It keeps investigating, rewriting, and continuing instead of just doing the task and stopping. I’m trying to figure out if this is mainly: Qwen itself Q3 quantization…

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  1. 2026-08-28 11:29 · r/LocalLLM
    Does Qwen3.8-27B overthink simple tasks for anyone else?

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