Qwen 3.8 27B SVG generation notes

Simon Willison&rsquo;s Qwen 3.8 test used a roughly 17 GB GGUF on an M5 Max to generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle. His transcript reported 22,276 reasoning tokens, 3,223 output tokens and nearly 21 minutes of wall time. I first reproduced that prompt locally, then added Qwen 3.8 as a fifth candidate to an existing blind SVG comparison. I subsequently repeated all eight prompts with…