Comment by cptskippy

7 hours ago

> Qwen-3.6-35B-A3B

The A3B models are super fast but I found the A3B Q4 model ran in circles a lot and ended up taking longer to complete tasks that 27B Q6 because it kept having to redo/rethink/fix something.

I was writing extensive prompts to rein it in and it would still ignore basic directives like "never force push on the repo, ask me instead". I ended up switching back to 27B after about a week of frustration and lost productivity.

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customguy  1 few seconds ago

I'm playing experimenting with a harness and just tested how well various models follow the instructions, and how they react to the tool claiming a local temperature of 72°C

here is how qwen/qwen3.6-27b reacted:

https://pastebin.com/srf7gjfy

try to count the number of times it "thinks" okay ready, just say the thing, no wait but what if...

this isn't thinking, this is insecurity/fear