LLM Digest

Story

simon_willison · Aug 16, 2026 · news

Source brief

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

simonwillison.netAug 16, 2026
original source linked

In brief

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 excellent size for running a model on a...

Feed lens

agentcodex

Read the original at simonwillison.net →Open in live feed Read that day’s brief

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

Earlier in this thread 4 items

Run Qwen 3.8 27B on AMD Ryzen™ AI Max Agentic PCs and Radeon ™ GPUs - AMD

[AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork

Cloudflare Adds Agent Tracing, with Truncation Limits and Uneven Payload Defaults

Why Are GUI Agents Correct but Late? Decode on the Decision-Time Critical Path, Tested with Pre-Compiled Policy Trees