AnalysisOpinion / analysisAgents & Tool Use · MLOps, Tooling & Infrastructure · Large Language Models1 source · Oct 15, 2026

Did someone use/try the Qwen flash 3.8 next "coder" model on some work?

Looking for people who have tried this model and was able to use it on real-world tasks.

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Key points

  • It's what Strata list as "coder".
  • On my setup I am not really sure if it is worth more than iq3

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Before this

  1. Oct 14, 2026Strata performance finetuning - try it out
  2. Oct 14, 2026Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next compared to GLM 5.3 Flash
  3. Oct 14, 2026176 t/s decode and 6,450 t/s prefill with Q4 Qwen-3.8 Flash-Next on 2xR9700 + 64GB DDR5 using Deadcode's Radiance engine
  4. Oct 14, 2026Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, DeepSeekV4 Flash and Time
  5. Oct 13, 2026Run fast, private agents on-device with LFM2.5-24B-A2B
  6. Oct 13, 2026Basalt: Fast Blackwell inference engine for Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (and how we got vision for free)

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