Early Twitter sentiment on Qwen 3.8 looks mixed
davidtsong · x · 2026-07-21
Twitter reactions to Qwen 3.8 are mixed. The poster says it does not seem to live up to the hype of being “Fable level.” The attached BenchmarkList screenshot shows a live “signals from Twitter” page that is scraping posts via the Twitter API and summarizing sentiment around Qwen 3.8 Max Preview. The page highlights a split between negative, mixed, neutral, and positive reactions, with repeated complaints about inconsistency, token hunger, weak frontend/design output, and performance not matching the hype. The post also points to BenchmarkList as a way to track user sentiment on new model releases from social media in near real time.
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