Users report Qwen models "overthink" simple responses, exhausting context
malliktwts · x · 2026-08-17
Users observed that Qwen 3.6 9B tends to "overthink" trivial interactions, taking 23 seconds to reply to a simple "Hi". This behavior appears to persist in Qwen 3.8, where default reasoning on simple inputs exhausts the context window.
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