Qwen3.6-27B and Qwen3.8-27B are great. They are fast and quite accurate for not having to spend too much time thinking or searching, as other models with comparable scores have to.

But Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, which tops a lot of benchmarks in its category, is the most obvious Claude distill ever, and although I don’t particularly care about how models get trained, I hate the way it sounds and interacts with me.

• Three warts I’d still fix
• Statements are down to the two things code can’t say
• The bug is fixed at the substrate that caused it
• Genuinely good now
• Also worth a conscious nod
• Say the word on 1 and/or 3 and I’ll do them

Not to mention Claude’s over-the-top comments and git commit messages that make you want to scream.

I wish Alibaba would go back to adopting its own style. Qwen3.6-27B and Qwen3.8-27B sound much better.