Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by XCSme on Sunday August 02, 2026 @11:50PM (#49151019)

If they trained it well, and can do computer use, it will be a new era. Companies can keep PCs, put Qwen 3.8 27b on it and get rid of the employees, lol...

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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by hippycruncher22 on Monday August 03, 2026 @01:51AM (#49151686)

Yes let’s get rid of employees so no one is employed but somehow they can afford to buy my stuff

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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by overfeed on Monday August 03, 2026 @02:55AM (#49152104)

It's the natural outcome of next-quarter short-termism. The board and C-suite will be fine (monetarily).

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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by XCSme on Monday August 03, 2026 @07:02AM (#49154084)

I am surprised that they keep going with it, seeing how fast it improves and basically soon running themselves too out of business.

What's even their end goal? Open source models make sense, if profit is not the target, but for OpenAI and the rest, once they achieve "AGI", don't they basically become useless?

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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by asqueella on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @10:11PM (#49177790)

Not a novel idea!

https://xcancel.com/jurijkovalenok1/status/18632434621133989... (Herluf Bidstrup's "Automation")

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