Qwen3.5 is a working dog.

r/LocalLLaMA
Generative AI

I saw someone say recently something to the effect of: “that man is a working dog. if you don’t give him a job, he’ll tear up the furniture.” Qwen3.5 is a working dog. I’ve been working with this model a lot recently. I’ve baked three dozen custom quantizations. I’ve used three different execution backends. Of everything I’ve learned I can at least report the following. These models absolutely hate having no context. They are retrieval hounds. They want to know their objectives going into things. Your system prompt is 14 whole tokens? You’re going to have a bad time.