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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B spirals in tool loops
A Reddit user says Qwen3.6-35B-A3B behaves worse than Qwen3.5-35B-A3B on a simple frontend styling task, getting stuck in repetitive reasoning and tool calls. The post frames it as a practical regression in local agentic workflows, even if the newer model may be stronger on paper.
// ANALYSIS
This reads like a stability problem more than a capability problem: if a model cannot stay on task inside an edit loop, raw benchmark gains do not help much in real coding work.
- –The report is anecdotal, but it is the kind of anecdote agentic model users care about: control-loop discipline matters as much as output quality
- –A model that keeps “thinking in circles” can be worse than a less capable one that makes steady edits and stops cleanly
- –Local runners like `ik_llama` may expose tool-use and stop-condition issues that are less obvious in hosted demos
- –If Qwen3.6 is meant to be better at frontend and agentic coding, it needs to be judged on loop stability, not just reasoning claims
- –The useful benchmark here is not “did it produce a nicer button” but “did it converge without self-reinforcing retries”
// TAGS
qwen3.6-35b-a3bllmreasoningagentai-codingopen-source
DISCOVERED
2h ago
2026-04-16
PUBLISHED
3h ago
2026-04-16
RELEVANCE
8/ 10
AUTHOR
spvn