AnalysisOpinion / analysisAgents & Tool Use · Large Language Models1 source · Oct 10, 2026

Agentic Coding with Qwen3.8 Flash Next GGUFs and Notes from COLM

Updates on Qwen3.8 Flash Next GGUF evaluations for agentic coding

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Key points

  • The Kaitchup – AI on a Budget is a reader-supported publication.
  • I’m attending COLM this week in San Francisco, the main conference dedicated to language modeling.
  • Small conferences are really the best, especially when they are as well organized as this one:
  • A strong focus on language modeling.

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Before this

  1. Oct 10, 2026KV4-RL: Unlocking Faster Asynchronous Rollouts for RLVR with INT4 KV Cache Quantization
  2. Oct 9, 2026Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo
  3. Oct 8, 2026nvidia/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP4-Local
  4. Oct 8, 2026Deflating the Hessian: Rank-4 W4A4 Quantization for Multimodal Diffusion Transformers
  5. Oct 8, 2026Bridging KV-Cache Quantization and Linear Attention: From Theory to Pretrained Weight Migration
  6. Oct 8, 2026ConwayResearch/Underdog-Saluki-27B-1.0

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