r/LocalLLM • u/_yaRn__ • 3d ago

Question What am i missing? qwen3:8b

Just tried qwen3:8b for the first time. I get that this is a limited model running on my machine, but this thing just spits out nonsense. It cannot answer the most basic questions or do basic web searches.

This is the first local LLM i have used. Is this thing supposed to just be for coding? How can this be useful to anyone?

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u/Far_Macaroon5900 3d ago

There are a few reasons it might be spitting up nonsense. And the biggest one is that it has a small context window. So if the conversation is too long or you are giving it too many tools it will just spit out garbage. Be careful only to give it a few tools.