Tried every knob: Qwen3.8-27B won't stop its wall-of-text narration
norenEnmotalen · reddit · 2026-08-24
The poster tried every lever they could think of to tame Qwen3.8-27B—thinking level, statistical parameters, chat templates, agents.md, caveman prompting—yet the wall-of-text narration never budged. They ask whether this is an unavoidable "personality" of the model or user error.
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