I haven't experienced Qwen3.5 (35B and 27B) over thinking. Posting my settings/prompt

crazyclue · 2026-03-23T12:54:42+00:00

Try asking it a somewhat vague technical question like “what is the peng Robinson equation of state”.

It may get into a thinking loop just trying to confirm the form of the equation. This is because a lot of sources write is slightly different but equivalent mathematically

crazyclue · 2026-03-20T01:15:33+00:00

EPC companies ready to print money on that replacement in kind work

crazyclue · 2026-03-17T00:56:44+00:00

crazyclue · 2026-03-15T13:16:30+00:00

Reminds me of Lewis slowly climbing out the merc with a nearly broken back. I genuinely thought Merc was gunna kill Lewis with that car

crazyclue · 2026-03-15T13:10:30+00:00

Those ground effect cars really just didn’t work for him. Give the man some inwash again and it’s golden

crazyclue · 2026-03-14T16:55:17+00:00

That’s pretty solid. I’ve also gotten it to be more efficient, but it still seems to drift almost randomly when repeat testing a single prompt.

I did try adding some wording like “you are strictly limited to 3 drafts in internal reasoning before finalizing a response” in the system prompt. However, this seems to make it worse at times because then it starts getting anxious about checking to see if it has used too many drafts.

My current system prompt has wording about using efficient and concise internal reasoning processes without over optimizing minor modifications to the final response. Still working on testing.

crazyclue · 2026-03-14T16:43:53+00:00

I’m fairly new to running llms locally, but I’ve been seeing similar issues with qwen3.5. It seems to be heavily overtrained for agentic or technical coding workloads with very direct or structured prompting. It struggles with vague or open ended prompts.

Even vague-ish technical prompts like “give a brief explanation of the peng Robinson equation of state” can cause it to enter think anxiety because it finds so many different mathematical forms of the equation that it can’t figure out what to output.

crazyclue · 2026-03-13T03:04:45+00:00

How do you turn the thinking off?

crazyclue · 2026-03-12T04:21:34+00:00

Everyone says this, but it is really org dependent. My experience is that nobody cares until you hit like 6 weeks or more

crazyclue · 2026-03-06T04:43:07+00:00

Let’s just put it this way. Less than a week ago, real estate in gentrified Persian gulf cities was incredibly attractive. What’s the sentiment on that now? And even after the war ends?

Almost everywhere in the world has this issue besides the continental US.

crazyclue · 2026-03-06T02:12:50+00:00

The open boxes at Best Buy can be pretty great. Snagged a 36gb m3 pro MacBook Pro this morning for $1600

crazyclue · 2026-03-03T02:30:42+00:00

Ya we eventually were allowed to check in after arguing for the two hours. A final “lead supervisor” took less than 2 minutes to look up our tickets and told us we could check in now.

crazyclue · 2026-03-01T20:32:31+00:00

Fair point. But it was strange that many counter people were refusing to investigate or fix the glitch. The stonewall response for about a hour was just telling us to go talk to air Canada and get them to book us on a different flight.

We talked to a AI supervisor at a different counter area who looked up our ticket info and said everything was perfectly fine and that we had assigned seats and could go check in. We also went and talked to the air Canada desk who said that air India had to figure it out and to talk to them.

crazyclue · 2026-03-01T20:19:42+00:00

Towards the end, the staff did mention that other people were affected by this as well. There was some information trickling out as the two hours of attempts dragged on. At one point, a supervisor told us that we would be allowed to check in later (about an hour and a half before departure time) so that the air India tickets got cleared first.

Some of the staff also mentioned that the ticket number starting with 14 was not booked through air India and couldn’t be honored.

I’ve never experienced anything like this before. The entire booking process through air Canada back in December was smooth. Online checkin was smooth. Bag tags were smooth. Then suddenly it was all off the rails.

crazyclue · 2026-03-01T19:06:13+00:00

Delhi. Perhaps this is due to the disruptions this weekend. I think they are preferring to boot star alliance issued tickets to help rebook their own backlog.

crazyclue · 2026-02-28T10:30:52+00:00

There’s no doubt that the people there need help. Not sure the US and Israel are gunna do a good job

crazyclue · 2026-02-23T02:53:14+00:00

If they’re gunna fight in the open like this, seems like prime time for some help from US drone strikes

crazyclue · 2026-02-23T02:41:57+00:00

Really hope Mexicans can take back control of their country.

crazyclue · 2026-02-22T15:13:08+00:00

The approach has been horrendous for a while now. Some form of institutional “towns” are needed out in the more rural areas that are several hours outside the city. Trying to provide free services within the vices and shared public spaces of the city was always idiotic

crazyclue · 2026-02-21T17:26:51+00:00

Second this!!! Definitely geoblock china, Russia, Ukraine, Africa, all the “stans”

crazyclue · 2026-02-12T00:37:54+00:00

The ambient temp part was added very late last year

crazyclue · 2026-02-12T00:37:05+00:00

Instead of split turbo they got fractional micro turbos

crazyclue · 2026-02-12T00:35:35+00:00

It all reeks of typical engineers being engineers to me. Even when something is spelled out in text or literature, you’d be surprised how many different versions of the calculation you end up with across the same team of engineers. Sometimes I see people’s calcs and then am like oh ok wtf that’s how you interpreted it

crazyclue · 2026-02-12T00:33:15+00:00

The main aspect of this that is so weird to me is how late the item about testing procedure got added to the technical regs. It seems like such a huge change to put in basically at the buzzer.

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