Re:Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
by pizza234 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:44PM
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> What frontier models are you using? I'm literally sitting with Qwen 3.8 27B locally and trying my damnest to get it to work at least 80% of the quality Astra et al have, and can't get close to it.
Local LLM can't get even closer to frontier ones. It's just bragging. There's a reason why models like Astra have 2 orders of magnitude more parameters (and run on specialized clusters).
Local models like Qwen (flash) are much slower, they have much less room for context, and most importantly (people forget to mention) they produce much buggier code. Ah, Qwen also goes into loops sometimes.
Having said, no doubt that Qwen-flash-next is considerably better than Qwen-3.8-27b - but on the other hand, it's several times bigger. Deepseek Flash also keeps getting bigger.
Local LLM can't get even closer to frontier ones. It's just bragging. There's a reason why models like Astra have 2 orders of magnitude more parameters (and run on specialized clusters).
Local models like Qwen (flash) are much slower, they have much less room for context, and most importantly (people forget to mention) they produce much buggier code. Ah, Qwen also goes into loops sometimes.
Having said, no doubt that Qwen-flash-next is considerably better than Qwen-3.8-27b - but on the other hand, it's several times bigger. Deepseek Flash also keeps getting bigger.