Simon Willison: Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

I look to Simon for a broad survey of current LLM tech. Here's his review of playing with Qwen 3.8 27B. His comment on Mastodon was "I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun playing with a local model that runs on my own computers".

BTW, the "wildly overthinking" comes from a bad default that's easy to change.