dev, architect, review, duck and brainstorm move from
litellm/muse-glimmer-30b-low to litellm/qwen3.8-27b-gsq-s-med, in both the
local-only and personal profiles. Glimmer's model entries are left in place so
reverting is a one-line change.
⚠ MEDIUM, not low -- do not "align" this with the -low convention Glimmer uses.
Qwen's own model card: "lower reasoning effort does not always reduce overall
task completion time" on multi-turn agentic work, because insufficient analysis
causes more failed actions and retries, raising latency AND total tokens. The
low-effort result that justifies muse-glimmer-30b-low was measured on Glimmer
and does not transfer.
⚠ The key is reasoning_effort, NOT Glimmer's reasoning_strength. The wrong key
is dropped by kwarg filtering before it reaches the template, returns 200, and
silently leaves the model at its default -- which for qwen3.8 is xhigh. Levels
are low / medium / xhigh; there is no `high`.
Verified the control actually moves rather than merely being accepted:
171 reasoning tokens at low against 430 at medium on one prompt.
Requires qwen3.8-27b-gsq-s-med in ~/config/litellm/config.yaml (untracked;
snapshot at config.yaml.pre-qwen38low).
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