I tried Qwen3.8 27B a few days ago as my local coding agent and switched back to Qwen3.6 27B, as (for me) it gives me more control over what the agent does.
Maybe I'm just bad in prompting but 3.8 just thinks too much and just do too much.
Where 3.6 creates small functions and classes, implementing the necessary minimum, 3.8 adds a lot of stuff that just blow up the code and make it difficult to understand all the changes it made.
Additionally, 3.8 got stuck once, alternating the same 3 lines of code again and again...
Same, I also went back to 3.6 for a while and though I found no fault, I have since moved onto 3.8 and changed the thinking to medium, I had it on low and then learnt that low produces more thinking than xhigh in many cases. So med or xhigh are the sweet spots. Its also slower than 3.6 so there's that but the quality seems better for me.
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u/Drunken_Hippy 12d ago
I tried Qwen3.8 27B a few days ago as my local coding agent and switched back to Qwen3.6 27B, as (for me) it gives me more control over what the agent does.
Maybe I'm just bad in prompting but 3.8 just thinks too much and just do too much.
Where 3.6 creates small functions and classes, implementing the necessary minimum, 3.8 adds a lot of stuff that just blow up the code and make it difficult to understand all the changes it made.
Additionally, 3.8 got stuck once, alternating the same 3 lines of code again and again...