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Minimum viable quant for agentic tasks?

Curious what quants people consider the floor for agentic work. My experience with Qwen 3.8 27B: for ERP retrieval tasks (cross-domain-ish, with tool calling), the official or well-known community Q4 seems to be the floor. Once I drop to FP4 formats like MXFP4, error rates on my evals start climbin…

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  1. 2026-10-18 16:00 · r/AI_Agents
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