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Folks running qwen 3.6 27b for agentic work. Do you dare to use q4_k_m?

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2 Oct
Heavily quantized Qwen3.8-Flash vs Q8 Qwen3.8-27B - thoughts?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm currently choosing between IQ3_XXS Qwen-3.8-Flash and Q8_0 27B.</p> <p>This month I don't have anything complex enough to justify either's

OPINION · HOW · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
26 Apr
Qwen3.5/3.6 Coder?

<!-- 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

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
15 Apr
Been trying to get Qwen 3.5 to stop reasoning using old methods like /no_think, it didn't work, but it said something like "too late" in its reasoning

<!-- 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>.

OPINION · WHO · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
25 Mar
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B reaches 20 t/s TG and 700t/s PP with a 5090

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I could not find good data points on what speed one could get with a single 5090 and enough DDR4 RAM. </p> <p>My system: AMD EPYC 7532 32core

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
5 May
qwen 3.6 27B looping problem

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1t45m77/qwen_36_27b_looping_problem/"> <img alt="qwen 3.6 27B looping problem"

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
16 Apr
Qwen 3.6: worse adherence?

<!-- 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

OPINION · WHERE · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
11 May
Why is my Qwen3.6-35B-A3B so much dumber than Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm genuinely unsure if I'm doing something wrong, or if the model is just worse, despite the community enthusiasm. I tend to use it with pi

OPINION · WHEN · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
30 Apr
Are Qwen 3.6 27B and 35B making other ~30B models obsolete?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Have Qwen 3.6 27B and Qwen 3.6 35B basically made most of the older ~30B models irrelevant?</p> <p>They seem to beat stuff like Qwen coder 30B,

OPINION · HOW · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
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