Posted by jeffmcjunkin 11 hours ago
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https://i.postimg.cc/yNZzmGMM/Screenshot-2026-04-03-at-12-44...
Not sure if I'm doing something wrong?
This more or less reflects my experience with most local models over the last couple years (although admittedly most aren't anywhere near this bad). People keep saying they're useful and yet I can't get them to be consistently useful at all.
I had a similarly bad experience running Qwen 3.5 35b a3b directly through llama.cpp. It would massively overthink every request. Somehow in OpenCode it just worked.
I think it comes down to temperature and such (see daniel‘s post), but I haven’t messed with it enough to be sure.
Base model (without instruction/chat tuning) just generates text non stop ("autocomplete on steroids") and text is not necessarily even formatted as chat -- most text in training data isn't dialogue, after all.
G: They offered a very compelling benefits package gemma!
I am only a casual AI chatbot user, I use what gives me the most and best free limits and versions.
Although I'm not sure whether Gemma will be available even in aistudio - they took the last one down after people got it to say/do questionable stuff. It's very much intended for self-hosting.
But I checked and it's there... but in the UI web search can't be disabled (presumably to avoid another egg on face situation)
