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Qwen-Next seems worse to me then 3.8 27b for coding, but I feel like I must be missing something?

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Hi! I run both models on MTPLX on my m5 max, and since I have 128GB of ram I run the q8 27b. I think MTPLX only lets me run "optimized for speed" which it says is a dynamic q4 with 8 bit attention. Both of them honestly are very speedy! For coding (in pi agent in nodejs) I've just noticed that 27B…

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  1. 2026-09-12 00:05 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen-Next seems worse to me then 3.8 27b for coding, but I feel like I must be missing something?

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