2026-07-02 09:05:06
#Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/
The AGENTS.md file simply uses up tokens – nothing else. This was the conclusion reached by researchers at ETH Zurich: ‘Surprisingly, we find that providing context files does not generally improve task success rates, while increasing inference cost by over 20% on average.’
#LLM #AgenticCoding #Claude #Codex #Qwen