Comment by KiwiJohnno

Yeah before Qwen 3.8 27b all local LLMs did feel like not very smart chat completion models. You would hit the limits of their intelligence all the time. Chatting with Qwen 3.8 is night and day, and it can do some pretty damn good coding and agentic work for its size. IMO its better than where frontier labs were at about 18 months ago, which is mind-blowing for a small locally hosted model.