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  • Qwen3.8 27B: A Free and Slow Sonnet 5?

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    Qwen3.8 27B just got released, a week after Meta's Muse Glimmer 30B. Alibaba advertises benchmark scores on par with Opus 4.6. This post compares Qwen3.8 27B with Muse Glimmer 30B, Sonnet 5 and Opus 5.
  • I compared Meta's new Muse Glimmer 30B against Gemma4 26B-A4B and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B on a simple agentic search task, running locally on an M3 Max. Muse Glimmer tries harder than any of them, and that is exactly what makes it unusable.
  • I have been using Claude Code personally and professionally for about six months. This post explains how I set it up, including plugins, tools, MCPs and CLI.