Qwen3.8-27B Defended: More Reasoning Tokens Isn't 'Overthinking'
ResearchCrafty1804 · reddit · 2026-08-17
A Reddit poster argues that criticizing Qwen3.8-27B for heavy reasoning-token use is unfair: with closed models like Opus 5 or GPT-5.6 Sol, real internal compute is invisible and vendors can absorb costs to look efficient, while open models' reasoning is fully measurable — so raw token counts aren't apples-to-apples. What matters is quality per actual cost; the model also lets you drop reasoningeffort from xhigh to medium for faster responses.
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