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Qwen3.8-27b has the highest level of "agency" I've ever seen in a local model

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Off a single prompt, given my credentials and the name of my university, qwen3.8-27b was able to successfully pull my class schedule from the kinda shitty and convoluted web of university websites. It needed no human intervention, and executed 80 tool calls. Another time, I asked it to investigate…

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  1. 2026-08-20 02:45 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen3.8-27b has the highest level of "agency" I've ever seen in a local model

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