> I've noticed the reasoning behaves... weirdly
Is this with the full unquantized weights? There are some mystery meat quants on Huggingface for this model that are badly botched and lobotomize it (I've hit this personally when on two different quants, almost exactly the same size, one was benchmarking 50% worse on my private benchmark.).
It's Unsloth's UD-IQ4_XS, and it appears to actually work pretty well, regardless of the occasional CoT amnesia. Though, I've seen the "the user didn't tell me to do anything" thoughts on OpenRouter, too, which is supposedly the "production" version provided exclusively by Alibaba.
Can confirm here as well. Running ilintar/qwen3.8-flash-next-gguf-strix-halo (IQ4) on pwilkin/strix-llama.
I see the same thing with Q8.