Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Alibaba's Qwen research lab released Qwen 3.8 27B, a 27-billion-parameter Apache 2.0 licensed AI model available in 17GB GGUF format that can run on high-end consumer laptops. The model supports vision, long contexts, and tool calling. The over-thinking problem Qwen's documentation describes the model as defaulting to xhigh for reasoning effort—a setting designed for complex tasks demanding thorough analysis. In practice, this causes the model to use its full 262,144 token context on even mun
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