Flint 40B Cannot Disable Reasoning; Root Cause Traced to Chat Template

tydsh warns that Flint 40B cannot disable reasoning and requires the flint reasoning parser; its repeated empty <think></think> outputs in agent scenarios stem from the chat template ignoring enablethinking=false.

2026-10-24 ~ 2026-10-24 · 2 related posts

• Flint 40B empty-think bug traced to chat template ignoring enable_thinking=false — tydsh · 2026-10-24
• Model can't disable reasoning: use flint parser with reasoning on, says tydsh — tydsh · 2026-10-24