Yes. xhigh can not just overdo the answer, it can also trip itself up and end up writing worse code.

Even in the lower reasoning levels I find I want to like Qwen 3.8 27B and mostly don’t; it’s OK in the low reasoning effort, though.

Muse Glimmer is the one I actually enjoy working with, at least so far.

But I am trying to use it more as a sidekick than as a long horizon developer, because that is a better fit for how I want to use AI, and it appears to have been well trained for that.