Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

	Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork(qwen.ai)
	1098 points by ai2027 72 days ago \| 603 comments
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	HN Discussion: ↑Excitement about the upcoming open-weight Qwen3.8-27B release as the most significant news ↑Anxiety about frontier coding models threatening freelance programming jobs ↓Skepticism that AI companies have a real moat given easy model switching, questioning high valuations ↑Hands-on comparison testing showing Qwen3.8-Max performs competitively against competitors like Opus ↑China catching up to or surpassing US AI leadership through open-source approach