Users report mixed experiences with Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 model; one user was convinced to set up a local LLM because of it, while another found its vision and multilingual support inferior to Google's Gemma 4.
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[comment u/MrNantir] Qwen 3.8 is the model that finally convinced me to try setting up a local LLM server.
[comment u/FoxFXMD] Sadly it only excels at coding and agentic use. Based on my own experience its vision, multilingual support and general knowledge is much worse compared to Gemma 4
“They can’t hear you through laptop fans.”
u/Atupis712 points · Aug 30, 2026View
“I feel like I am seen as a fossil because I like to write code and prompt AI to fill in functions as I define the shape and direction of an application myself. These types of tasks have been excellent for things like Tiel Coder. It allows me to build one step at a time and understand what the hell is actually happening. Meanwhile my coworkers all prompt Claude to produce a whole cloth feature th”
u/Nefilim314152 points · Aug 30, 2026View
“can someone explain why 3.8 is so famous right now?”
u/VDX755 points · Aug 30, 2026View
“This sub has become as circlejerky as the closed AI subs it complains about. The weird thing is, on those closed AI subs I hardly see them hating on open weights. It won't surprise me if this sub gets splintered into other subs as a result of some people not being interested in irrelevant memes or politics being injected into discussions.”
u/discwars47 points · Aug 30, 2026View
“Why is Gemini even there?”
u/grudev33 points · Aug 30, 2026View
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