Qwen 3.8 thinks like I do when choosing what hardware to buy

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><blockquote> <p>Wait, I need to be careful about the &quot;no_think&quot; tag in the system prompt. The system prompt says <code>/no_think</code>.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Just swapped Qwen 3.5 for the 3.6 variant (FP8, RTX 6000 Pro) using the same recommended generation settings. My stack is vLLM (v0.19.0) + Open

Qwen 3.8 27B in its default reasoning settings in LM Studio of "extra high" is a chronic over-thinker and I kind of love it

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>With practically all of LocalLlama glazing Qwen 3.5/3.6 for it's coding skills. Along with the fact that Alibaba themselves are focusing on

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I am currently running the new Laguna model at Q2_K_XL on dual 3090s for reference, with a Q8 context of 200,000. </p> <p>Using Pi, I am noticing

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>In LM Studio the new Qwen 3.5 models (4b 9b 27b 122b) when analyzing large (more than 50k tokens) texts start to output gibberish. It is not a

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So in response to the Great Token Reconning of 2026, I decided to try out Qwen 3.6 as a daily driver, and although it's only been about a day, I