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Qwen 3.8 27b helped me with something unique that Opus 4 couldn't - Firmware + Software preservation and emulation on an early 2000's ARM based POS system

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Hi all, I made a post regarding how much Qwen 3.8 has improved over 3.6: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vqm51f/long_review_qwen_38_27b_is_very_good_at_tapping/ I made a very thorough write-up of how Qwen 3.8 compared not only to 3.6, but frontier models when it came to creating a HTM…

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  1. 2026-08-23 20:01 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen 3.8 27b helped me with something unique that Opus 4 couldn't - Firmware + Software preservation and emulation on an early 2000's ARM based POS system

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