[PunchyHamster]

I asked it to recite potato 100 times coz I wanted to benchmark speed of CPU vs GPU. It's on 150 line of planning. It recited the requested thing 4 times already and started drafting the 5th response.

...yeah I doubt it

[lachiflippi]

Qwen3.5 pretty much requires a long system prompt, otherwise it goes into a weird planning mode where it reasons for minutes about what to do, and double and triple checks everything it does. Both Gemini's and Claude Opus 4.6's prompts work pretty well, but are so long that whatever you're using to run the model has to support prompt caching. Asking it to "Say the word "potato" 100 times, once per line, numbered.", for example, results in the following reasoning, followed by the word "potato" in 100 numbered lines, using the smallest (and therefore dumbest) quant unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF:UD-IQ2_XXS:

"User is asking me to repeat the word "potato" 100 times, numbered. This is a simple request - I can comply with this request. Let me create a response that includes the word "potato" 100 times, numbered from 1 to 100.

I'll need to be careful about formatting - the user wants it numbered and once per line. I should use minimal formatting as per my instructions."

[PunchyHamster]

good to know, thanks. I just ran ollama with qwen3.5:27b. Currently it's stuck on picking format

    Let's write.
    Wait, I'll write the response.
    Wait, I'll check if I should use a table.
    No, text is fine.
    Okay.
    Let's write.
    Wait, I'll write the response.
    Wait, I'll check if I should use a bullet list.
    No, just lines.
    Okay.
    Let's write.
    Wait, I'll write the response.
    Wait, I'll check if I should use a numbered list.
    No, lines are fine.
    Okay.
    Let's write.
    Wait, I'll write the response.
    Wait, I'll check if I should use a code block.
    Yes.
    Okay.
    Let's write.
    Wait, I'll write the response.
    Wait, I'll check if I should use a pre block.
    Code block is better.

... (for next 100 lines)

[lumirth]

well hold on now, maybe it’s onto something. do you really know what it means to “recite” “potato” “100” “times”? each of those words could be pulled apart into a dissertation-level thesis and analysis of language, history, and communication.

either that, or it has a delusional level of instruction following. doesn’t mean it can’t code like sonnet though

[PunchyHamster]

It's still amusing to see those seemingly simple things still put it into loop it is still going

> do you really know what it means to “recite” “potato” “100” “times”?

asking user question is an option. Sonnet did that a bunch when I was trying to debug some network issue. It also forgot the facts checked for it and told it before...