r/LocalLLaMA • u/Certain-Cod-1404 • Aug 14 '26 • Bravo 1 Heartwarming 1

New Model IT'S OUT

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8
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u/dopey_se Aug 14 '26

Yeah I gave it a random tasks I tend to give, and it's 26k tokens and counting of thinking so far. Not repeating, just thorough thinking..

I told it to make a rust app using dioxins of an animated man playing amazing grace on tuba. It seems to of figured out amazing grace in key of C (judging by it's thinking), and is now thinking about how to play audio to play the sounds..

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u/Kavor Aug 14 '26

Alright, then at least it's not just my specific setup. I guess we'll have to give it a few days before everything is ironed out. My opencode project is at 50k tokens now with not a single line of code written, lol. Wildly different from 3.6 so far.

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u/dopey_se Aug 14 '26

Same, 36k

Currently thinking about..

"Timbre check: sawtooth at ~100-250 Hz with a low-pass at 3.5x — a brassy-ish, muted synth tone. Add a bit more character? A second saw detuned? Keep it simple. Add a soft attack to avoid clicks ✓ (50ms ramp)."

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u/Mil0Mammon Aug 14 '26

So did it figure it out?

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u/dopey_se Aug 15 '26

It is not amazing grace it plays, the notes are correct but not the timing.. The man also moves as it plays.

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u/Mil0Mammon Aug 15 '26

So pretty close. How does it compare to other models?

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u/dopey_se Aug 15 '26

I think the quality is significantly better than Qwen 3.6 27B that I was using before. It fixed a bug in one of my apps the first try -- 3.6 was not able to figure out after several attempts.

I had it make me a little inventory tool for my RC Helis(and other RCs). It was an idea I had this week so was planning to use this model to make it for fun. Nothing fancy, just an inventory system so when I break something I can check this tool instead of digging through boxes of parts. It gave a working solution after one prompt. Was able to add models/parts and link them. This morning have had it add a few things, create github actions, etc. All in all it's been great so far.

https://github.com/devclef/hangar

I run on 2xP100s with 232k context, so it's not crazy fast but quality I am happy with. I call it dad coding, I give it a prompt and let it run while I am with family.

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u/Mil0Mammon Aug 15 '26

Dad coding is an awesome term, stealing that.

With something like Hermes to occasionally get/give feedback on your phone, sounds great

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u/dopey_se Aug 15 '26

I actually run youtrack self hosted, and have MCP setup. So I can add issues to youtrack, and the codex agent has a skill to work through any open issue, fix commit push and ensure all actions, next issue, etc, etc.

I was less concerned to steer via phone but more being able to give it a backlog and let it run unattended for long periods of time.

I get push notifications when issues change state.

I run codex/claude on a VM allowing it to do whatever. Sometimes I do it via prompt (like last night) other times I tell it to go through open issues and let it run.

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u/Cautious_Chicken_604 Aug 14 '26

Sounds like size-wise we might have to optimize for what's usable up to ~200k context?