alt Hacker NewsQwen 3.8 is both impressive in what a 27B model can do and then hilariously stupid the next second, literally smashing into the wall repeatedly when the door is 3ft to the right.
That said it's the first local modal useful enough to keep around and since I have zero interest in remote/hosted models actually the first time I've used one to do useful things (rather than just poking them with a stick to get a feel for what they can and can't do).
Yeah, this lines up with my experience. It will overkill things and then dig a hole for itself and fall in.
But did you test Muse Glimmer? IMO it is really worth comparing the two, at least. I really find it interesting (and while it is slower at outputting tokens, it solves problems better and usually even faster than the 3.6 35B MoE).
So far it happens to be the only one I've put code into production from (though I have done loads of useful self-teaching research with the Qwen models and I am grateful for them)