FWIW that doesn't match my experience with Qwen 3.8 27B. After giving it some instructions on what to do (usually i start with what i want to achieve, followed by how i want things to do, then asking it for comments/questions/suggestions - all three - where it gives a bunch and i adjust/correct some of those until a plan is made and written down to a file that it can reference), it does things just fine and has done stuff more complex than basic CLIs - web apps, desktop GUI apps (i have several GUI utilities i'm using daily made with it), etc.

I did had it forget some stuff over long runs that went through several context compactions and i'd expect a larger model to be able to handle more vague instructions or have wider breadth of knowledge (if you're trying to make Qwen 3.8 27B do stuff outside the mainstream you need to provide it with some reference material to use) but i never had a problem with it not following instructions.

The harness might matter though but i'm using plain Pi (which is a very barebones harness with a very small system message) without any addons.

> Ah yes, I forgot about part X

Would something like LMCache help here?