There’s a fine-tuned version called Swift that’s been trained to use 58.3% fewer reasoning tokens, apparently with almost no loss of quality. I’ve not been in a hurry with my personal usage (I set my coding agent loose on a task and then go have tea or whatever) so I haven’t experimented with it much but it might be worth checking out if the verbosity of reasoning is a problem.
Qwen4 will be coming out soon too, it has a 27B version, so perhaps they’ll have incorporated more efficient reasoning into it from the start. I’m looking forward to testing it out.
Good tip! I’ll definitely be checking this out, as someone who also uses Qwen3.8 27B. The capability leap over the model I used before is definitely worthwhile, but wow does it overthink really easily.
There’s a fine-tuned version called Swift that’s been trained to use 58.3% fewer reasoning tokens, apparently with almost no loss of quality. I’ve not been in a hurry with my personal usage (I set my coding agent loose on a task and then go have tea or whatever) so I haven’t experimented with it much but it might be worth checking out if the verbosity of reasoning is a problem.
Qwen4 will be coming out soon too, it has a 27B version, so perhaps they’ll have incorporated more efficient reasoning into it from the start. I’m looking forward to testing it out.
Good tip! I’ll definitely be checking this out, as someone who also uses Qwen3.8 27B. The capability leap over the model I used before is definitely worthwhile, but wow does it overthink really easily.