Nat Lambert: traces from mid-tier open models are almost all super janky
natolambert · x · 2026-10-27
Nathan Lambert predicts a weird Qwen behavior is about to go viral, noting that few people have actually read traces from mid-tier open models — and nearly all of them are super janky, hinting at a gap between perceived and actual behavior quality.
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