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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

Qwen 3.8 27B 表现出色,但默认推理强度过高导致过度思考

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

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Context

"Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things" is archived here as a source-linked AI signal from Simon Willison’s Weblog. The useful part is the connection between Qwen, 27B, excellent, defaults, wildly and shipping faster, improving internal workflows, and spotting repeatable builder patterns, which makes the item more actionable than a normal feed headline. The source context says: Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

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