I think people are seriously underestimating Qwen 3.8 27B.

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Honestly, I think people are seriously underestimating Qwen 3.8 27B. It’s actually insane and, in some ways, genuinely competes with Opus 4.8, just not in the way people seem to think. The biggest mistake is comparing their raw frontend/design output. Qwen probably isn’t going to match Opus there, and I don’t think it’s supposed to. Opus has basically been trained with an absurd amount of data/compute specifically around design and UI generation. If you throw Qwen at a frontend task wit