Qwen3.8-27B Ran 80 Unattended Tool Calls on a Single RTX 3090 to Scrape a University Portal, Then Installed Whisper on Its Own

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A user running Unsloth's Q4_K_S quant at 150k context with q8 KV cache reported the model pulling their class schedule out of a tangle of university websites from one prompt with zero intervention, executing 80 tool calls. In a second run it investigated a social media user, downloaded a public video, extracted frames at intervals to watch it, installed OpenAI Whisper to transcribe the audio, then selectively zoomed and brightened frames. The post hit 518 upvotes, and the top reply (246 upvotes) is the obvious counterweight, asking whether the poster worries it might withdraw them from university.