I ran Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next on my AMD 7900 XTX at 500k context. All local and what a shift it has been.

I was running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (base and later Swift-1.5 NVFP4) on a paid pod seat for about a month, and it started answering with short strings that echoed its own earlier reasoning. I assumed the context was getting too big for it. But it wasn't. Across almost 13,000 turns the echo appeared 266