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NoQwen · 30 Sep 2026

I had it try to write some basic unit tests for an admittedly complex bit of code and it ran out of context thinking about the problem and exploring random parts of the code base repeatedly before it even wrote a single line

zdragnar on Hacker News

In the thread “The AI Race Just Got Awkward”, replying to this comment

Helped: Toning down the thinking helped some.

Got in the way: Ran out of context exploring random parts of code base.

Weird, I kinda gave up on 3.8 as anything other than a planner. I had it try to write some basic unit tests for an admittedly complex bit of code and it ran out of context thinking about the problem and exploring random parts of the code base repeatedly before it even wrote a single line. Toning down the thinking helped some, but then it wasn't much better than qwen coder.