💬 Following up on the story about the release of Qwen3.8-Max, I finally tried it on real-world tasks. Specifically, for building AI consultants for text channels (messengers) in my favorite programming language — Go.
Spoiler: it’s really good, especially for such a low price per 1M tokens! 😍
As a result, I built 2 demo Telegram bots, where GPT-4.1-mini acts as the brains 👇
1️⃣ A bot for qualifying a customer and booking a car repair appointment, which asks for details about the vehicle and the issue, answers questions about service pricing, and schedules a convenient visit time.
2️⃣ A bot for calculating kitchen pricing for furniture companies, which уточняет kitchen parameters through guiding questions, calculates the cost, sends the final estimate, and books the client at the company office for a detailed design session.
Before implementation, of course, I wrote a detailed spec for each of these bots and connected MCP Context7.
I also had to make 1–2 corrective prompts for code style and some business-logic details... but otherwise, Qwen3.8-Max worked fully autonomously in the engineering loop (questioning itself at every stage and adjusting its own reasoning and code).
Token usage (input + output) totaled ~12.8 million, across about 400 API requests to the Chinese model. That’s seriously impressive! For comparison, I ran the same task through DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest: with similar output results, it used over15 milliontokens.
By the way, the whole development process was done in the next-gen AI IDE Kodik, by our local guys — ArchiTech AI.
Highly recommend down and trying it. Not an Ad! I’ve been using it for over a month now, and it’s truly a very high-quality product, especially in the era of account bans from Anthropic and OpenAI 😏
...and soon, a local model called Qwen3.8-27b is also expected to drop, which Alibaba has promised to release any day now... that’s definitely something that can make the big AI model vendors nervous!
😉 And if you need to design, build, and launch an AI solution for you and/or automate your business processes, feel free to DM me: t.me/koddr
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