This weird qwen behavior is going to go viral because no one has read traces from mid-tier open models and realized they're almost all super janky.

What happened

This weird qwen behavior is going to go viral because no one has read traces from mid-tier open models and realized they're almost all super janky.

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The story so far

Nathan Lambert highlighted what he called “weird” Qwen behavior and argued that similarly erratic traces are common among mid-tier open models. In a post on X, he predicted the Qwen behavior would go viral because few people had read those models’ traces and recognized how “super janky” they were.