As the title suggests. I'm already testing (with some success, and few challenges) usage of Qwen-3.5 9B with a new work laptop that I've received with RTX 1000 6GB VRAM (I know it seems like a joke in today's time and age). I am using it with `pi` as the terminal coding harness. The issue I am facing with Qwen-3.5 9B is that I've encountered some (relatively infrequent) issues around:
- How it handles directories / folders - more than once, strangely I got a deeply nested folder structure for final code/test artefacts
- Recognized test run to be failure, while it was actually a success
Same prompts when used with gemini-2.5-flash and gemini-2.5-flash-lite don't see such issues, indicating the possibility that the issue is not with `pi`. I've read some reports of `pi` sometimes struggling with Qwen-3.5 tool-calling, and that is apparently fixed in Qwen-3.6. Thus wondering if anyone heard or Qwen-3.6-27B dense model distillations with 9B, 14B might also be released, enabling using in smaller GPUs.
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