The latest Qwen 3.8 27B free, open source, open model is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/ https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B Qwen 3.8 – 27B is a game changer byu/Potential_Block4598 inLocalLLaMA The gist:A cybersecurity analyst tested Qwen 3.8 27B, a relatively small model that can run locally, on malware-analysis tasks they consider genuinely difficult. They claim it performed better than models that were state-of-the-art only…