Qwen 3.8 27B Completes Reverse Engineering Job in 30 Mins
yogthos · reddit · 2026-08-23
The author assigned a reverse engineering job, assumed to require a frontier model, to Qwen 3.8 27B. It finished the task in just 30 minutes. This suggests that for specific engineering tasks, some open-source models can match or beat expensive frontier closed-source models.
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