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I found code in my repo I'd never seen. All 82 tests passed. I quarantined it for three days anyway.

An individual discovered unfamiliar code within their repository. Despite the code successfully passing all 82 tests, the developer chose to quarantine it for three days. This action was taken even though automated checks indicated no issues.

This event highlights the importance of vigilance in codebases, even when automated tests indicate no issues.

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I found code in my repo I'd never seen. All 82 tests passed. I quarantined it for three days anyway.
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen lab, was released on Friday. Simon Willison tested it on local hardware and found it excellent but noted it defaults to an 'xhigh' reasoning effort, causing it to overthink simple prompts and consume excessive tokens and time.

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