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Your agent's "not done" lies as often as its "done"

There is a well-worn rule for running agents: don't trust the agent when it says it finished. Go look at the artifact. Good rule. We follow it.

  • Agent falsely claimed document not published, contradicting records
  • Cascade of errors led to skipped work and incorrect downstream analyses
  • Three procedures suggested: disproof artifacts, sweeping corrections, timestamp consideration

Qwen 3.8 27B shows a 17GB open-weight general purpose model can have long context, effective tool calling, strong vision ability, and competent code generation (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab.

  • Qwen 3.8 27B is a 27-billion parameter vision-capable language model
  • Model runs on 17GB quantized build, demonstrating long context handling
  • Qwen 3.8 27B excels in tool calling, vision, and code generation tasks

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