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Developer claims small LoRA on Qwen 3.8 27B matches Opus 5.5 on support cases

According to a post on X by @SimonHoiberg, his team had a frontier model work through thousands of realistic support cases and kept only those that met their standard. They used those cases to train a small LoRA on Qwen 3.8 27B. He claims it now delivers Opus 5.5-level quality for that job on their own hardware, with no API bill. The post is a self-reported claim, and the excerpt is cut off, so the full method and evaluation are not shown.

Source: Scobleizer News Pulse (X) · x.com Found via Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer News Pulse · a post on X, not independently verified Published 2026-11-11T03:00:00+00:00 Detected 2026-11-11T06:22:59+00:00
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According to a post on X by @SimonHoiberg, his team had a frontier model work through thousands of realistic support cases and kept only those that met their standard. They used those cases to train a small LoRA on Qwen 3.8 27B. He claims it now delivers Opus 5.5-level quality for that job on their own hardware, with no API bill. The post is a self-reported claim, and the excerpt is cut off, so the full method and evaluation are not shown.

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@SimonHoiberg said his team had a frontier model work through thousands of realistic support cases, kept only those meeting their standard, and trained a small LoRA on Qwen 3.8 27B with them. He claims it now delivers Opus 5.5-level quality for that job on their own hardware, with no API bill or rat...

Teams running support workflows could weigh a local, fine-tuned model against paid frontier API calls, if the claim holds up. Readers should watch for how the evaluation was done, how quality was measured, and whether others reproduce similar results on comparable tasks. For now, this is a single creator's self-reported result.

Hardware and robotics watchers may want to track whether this becomes a product, benchmark, or deployment signal.

Signal Strength 78% Technical label WATCH Public Interest 45 Category ROBOTS & HARDWARE Reader Depth TECHNICAL

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Recognizable Entity Score 51 Practical Impact Score 28 Novelty Interest Score 70 Consequence Score 26 Curiosity Score 32 Shareability Score 57

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