Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, its largest and most capable AI model to date. The headline specifications are absurd: 2.4 trillion total parameters, 95 billion activated per token, multimodal input, and a one-million-token context window. But the specification sheet is not the most interesting part. Alibaba says Qwen3.8-Max operated autonomously for roughly 16 days, starting with an empty repository and building a working software project through issues, code changes, testing, pull r...