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Quick PSA: Qwen3.8-27B reasoning effort vs reasoning budget in llama.cpp
If you are using llama-server with their web-ui for testing, keep in mind, that the reasoning selector is just a reasoning budget aka a hard cap and has, at least to my knowledge, nothing at all to do with Qwen3.8-27B's native reasoning effort capability! Selecting any value for reasoning in the web-ui (default, (off),