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Qwen 3.8:27b - It's (maybe) not the new Messiah.....

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After a week of using Qwen 3.8:27b for semi productive work, here (at the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious) is my take: 1) It's (very) good for a small local model, but not without a caveat on VRAM required to make it useful IRL. 2) It uses (a lot of) thinking as a substitute for model size, wh…

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  1. 2026-08-30 21:42 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen 3.8:27b - It's (maybe) not the new Messiah.....

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