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QWEN 3.8 27B IS EXCELLENT, BUT IT DEFAULTS TO WILDLY OVERTHINKING THINGS

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Qwen 3.8 27B is a powerful yet slow vision-capable language model that tends to over-analyze prompts by default, requiring users to adjust its reasoning settings for more efficient outputs.