Local Qwen 27B Doom Loop Turns Existential: 'I'm the One Degenerating'
HippEMechE · reddit · 2026-09-17
Reddit user HippEMechE was running Qwen 3.8 27B (q4KM with MTP) locally on llama.cpp, trying to migrate another server to vllm, when tool calls kept failing. Asked to investigate, the model spiraled into a doom loop—and mid-troubleshooting it turned suddenly self-referential, saying "I'm the one degenerating" and "...I am the phenomenon." A funny local-LLM moment that also hints at instability under quantized MTP setups.
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