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Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash

346 points · 138 comments · jjcm

  1. conception · · focus · HN ↗
    3.8 Max is the most “grounded” model I think - talks generally normal, doesn’t go crazy and start doing things (I see you Gemini), has good design choices and isn’t overly nitpicky. But god it’s slow. And only available from Alibaba. Their token plan is stingy too. If I had to pick the “old reliable boring” LLM, a modern Claude 4.5 if you will, Qwen is my choice. Hopefully they don’t RL it to oblivion.
    1. rubslopes · · focus · HN ↗
      > RL it to oblivion.

      What would that mean in this context?

      1. conception · · focus · HN ↗
        In this context, benchmaxing, if you will, so hard towards agentic coding benchmarks that everything else suffers.
        1. antupis · · focus · HN ↗
          I think we are starting be on that territory that regular software development is suffering, current models are great for benchmarks and one-shots but in daily development models are too eager and try to force patterns like excessive tests in every turn.
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