User Says Qwen Flash Next Lags in Long-Term Agent Tasks

A Reddit user reports that Qwen Flash Next at iq4_xs follows instructions less reliably and hallucinates more than Qwen 27B while using far fewer tokens. It excels at one-shot and benchmark tasks, and did not loop on Strata, but felt weaker for long-term agentic assistant work.

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