Qwen 3.8 27B excels but defaults to overthinking
bilsbie · hn · 2026-08-17
Simon Willison tested the Qwen 3.8 27B model. He found that while the model performs excellently overall, it tends to default to "overthinking"—generating excessively long or complex reasoning chains. The post discusses this behavioral pattern and its implications for practical use cases.
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