Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
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Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 27B is a powerful 27-billion-parameter open-source vision model that fits in a 17GB file and runs on high-end laptops. It excels at coding, image analysis, and tool use, but its default "xhigh" reasoning setting causes severe overthinking, sometimes spending 21 minutes on simple tasks. Turning reasoning down fixes this dramatically.
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