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2026-08-16
simonwillison.net
large-language-models
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Alibaba's Qwen research lab released Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM, which defaults to an 'xhigh' reasoning effort that causes it to overthink simple tasks, taking…