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Qwen 3.8 27B vs Gemini 3.7 Flash (High) for real coding: open-source 27B model did a much better job

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TL;DR: In this real-world C++/OrcaSlicer debugging project, Qwen 3.8 27B impressed me more than Gemini 3.7 Flash High . Gemini was faster and productive, but repeatedly declared success before the tests fully justified it. Qwen was better at falsifying its own hypotheses, separating unrelated bugs,…

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  1. 2026-08-19 17:03 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen 3.8 27B vs Gemini 3.7 Flash (High) for real coding: open-source 27B model did a much better job

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