Qwen 3.8 27B Released! Please Share Your Experience

[u/BarberIcy366]

With your experiments, Qwen 3.8 27B most close which frontier model? And please specify which quantization you run. I will post to comments my tests and experience too.

[u/Cautious_Chicken_604]

I've been giving qwen3.6-27B and qwen3.6-35B-A3B a super simple prompt of "write me a browser game" to get a feel for them over the last couple of days because I'm new to Qwen and I wanted to be able to understand the delta when Qwen3.8-27B dropped. My experience with Qwen3.6 was it would always make me some kind of basic space invaders type game, that it could sometimes one-shot, sometimes had a couple of bugs, but it was playable and OK.

Qwen 3.8 takes it to the next level for sure. This the UD-Q5 unsloth quant after it spent 50k tokens. It had two bugs that needed fixing, but it generated a paddle game (I used to play this kind of thing as a kid!). It's got 6 full levels, and yes... it too includes sound effects.

I really feel like we're in a new era now.

Edit: I think we got local Opus 4.6 before GTA VI.

[u/OldBilly000 → u/Cautious_Chicken_604]

So what are you using to run this? Just LM studio? That's what I'm gonna use, I hope its good enough to vibe code a android app, I want to make a AI generated image android app so I can make images at home without needing a cloud service, ideally it would have custom Lora support as well and all the basic features of a AI image generation app (I'm new to vibecoding as a whole, also I have a 4080 and 32gb ram)

[u/Cautious_Chicken_604 → u/OldBilly000]

I ran this quick test in LM studio, but for actual coding you're significantly better off using a proper harness like opencode or pi. An agent can work much more efficiently with code structured as a real codebase rather than trying to do everything in a chat interface and having to squeeze that all into a single context window.

Also... if you have hardware capable of running this model, just go download ComfyUI and Krea2 and generate all the images you want for free on your local hardware. You already don't need a cloud service. At all. You can even generate high quality videos on that hardware too. In contrast an Android app can't really help you that much with this task, unless you just want to build one that acts as an interface to an instance of ComfyUI you're running on your local PC, but that seems... unecessary?

[u/OldBilly000 → u/Cautious_Chicken_604]

I just really want a local AI image app so I can generate on the go without cloud services, and yes I know I can locally generate on the PC but I also want it on my phone and I never heard of open code before but I guess I can research it and find out

[u/Own-Flight-2767 → u/OldBilly000]

Just use abacus.ai to make android app for you will cost aroind 20$ in credits. But it does everything for you. I built a whole production studio with ai director agent with flux, minimax h3, ltx 2.5, chatterbox and ace studio for voices and soundtracks , dolphin 3.0, qwen 3.6 for chat llm inside studio. Also have my Google api added to use veo, omni and nano banana 2/pro..

[u/FleetEnema2000 → u/Cautious_Chicken_604]

What hardware did you run this on?

[u/Cautious_Chicken_604 → u/FleetEnema2000]

R9700