Qwen3.6 27B INT8 Quant Recipe Shows Less Thinking Yields More Correct Answers

r/LocalLLaMA·medium signal

A practitioner on r/LocalLLaMA reports that a specific Qwen3.6 27B INT8 AutoRound quantization consistently produces shorter chain-of-thought reasoning while maintaining or improving correctness over the full-precision model. The 61-upvote post with 14 comments is seeking community verification of the counterintuitive finding that aggressive quantization can suppress overthinking, a pattern that could inform how practitioners deploy thinking models locally.