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qwen3.8-27b: fold in Defilan #24 field notes (MTP, gfx1151, template fixes) - #25

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Folds the field notes from #24 (thanks @Defilan) into the Qwen3.8-27B guide. Every existing finding he probed reproduced; these are additions, not corrections to the behavioral results.

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  • MTP speculative decoding section (new). The head ships as a separate 1.6 GiB GGUF in ggml-org/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF, not in the tested unsloth quant, which is why the card had no MTP section. Up to ~3.5x single-stream, workload-dependent optimum (code keeps climbing to nDraftMax 7, prose peaks at 3, acceptance falls with depth). This matches our independent vLLM/SGLang runs on the same GB10 (DSpark/EAGLE 45-53 on structured, ~16 on prose).
  • Quant tradeoff inversion: the two Q4_K_M files differ; the larger/slower ggml-org file is the better single-stream choice by 3x because it is the only one that enables MTP.
  • gfx1151 (Strix Halo) row + two Vulkan cautions (speculation is non-deterministic at temp 0 and unstable up to ~31% spread on RADV).
  • reasoning_effort: high = HTTP 500 on the stock template, not a quiet degrade.
  • Trap 2 addendum: medium is inert as an instruction but reasons more than low.
  • Second cause of the turn-6 signature: output-budget exhaustion (small max_tokens), distinct from context exhaustion, distinguishable by checking completion_tokens against both bounds.

check_guides passes locally (frontmatter + no em/en-dashes).

…corrections)

Adds the MTP speculative-decoding section the card lacked (head ships as a
separate 1.6 GiB GGUF in ggml-org, not the tested unsloth quant; up to ~3.5x,
workload-dependent optimum matching our independent vLLM/SGLang runs), a Strix
Halo gfx1151 throughput row with two Vulkan cautions, the reasoning_effort:high
HTTP 500 correction, the medium-reasons-more-than-low addendum to Trap 2, and
the second output-budget cause of the turn-6 signature.

Closes #24 field notes; every existing finding Defilan probed reproduced.
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