The difference between "medium" and "xhigh" reasoning effort for Qwen3.8-27B is actually insane.
Summary
The user observes that setting reasoning effort to 'xhigh' in Qwen3.8-27B generates significantly more thinking tokens compared to 'medium', with dramatic differences in token usage.
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