User claims Qwen3.8-27B was secretly nerfed after local runs degrade on basic tasks
liright · reddit · 2026-11-05
A Reddit user reports that Qwen3.8-27B, which initially handled complex tasks and bugfixes impressively on his RTX 4090 via a Q4 quant in llama.cpp, has recently been failing at basic tasks, forgetting instructions, and refusing to finish complex work. He suspects the provider secretly re-quantized or nerfed the model to make Qwen4 look better, and demands a refund. The claim is unverified — locally-run quantized models are typically immune to server-side changes.
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