Qwen3.8-27B has the best coding ceiling you can run at home on consumer hardware, it ships with reasoning_effort defaulting to xhigh - I measured what that costs
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Its chat template has this line: {%- set resolved_reasoning_effort = reasoning_effort|default('xhigh') %} xhigh is the most expensive of its three settings (low / medium / xhigh). If you never set one, that's what every answer runs at. No backend reports this back to you, because it's a chat-templa…
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