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Qwen3.8-27B has become unuseable recently

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When it came out, I downloaded a Q4 quant of qwen3.8-27b and ran it using llama.cpp on my RTX 4090 and it was incredible. It could handle practically anything I threw at it, the most complex tasks and bugfixes. But lately it just keeps messing up and failing at the most basic of tasks or just strai…

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  1. 2026-11-05 09:31 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen3.8-27B has become unuseable recently

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