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kulminaator 2026-03-08T14:49:52.758309Z

So whilst playing around with smaller AI LLM models i asked one to write a binary tree with usage examples/tests ... It was the qwen3.5 4B model. It did so but the implementations it came up with all ran into deep recursion and gave errors. I tried to direct to avoid recursion but all in void. It found new ways to backstab itself. Then i started from a new shell, i told it to use clojure's trampoline construct instead of recursion. It succeeded right away. Simple is beautiful and apparently even more understandable for LLM-s 🙇

p-himik 2026-03-08T17:55:29.180879Z

That is, when you already know what the issues are and how to solve them. :) And how to describe all more or less properly.

doojin 2026-03-09T09:26:00.285999Z

I don't think small LLM models are great for helping you with programming tasks...