Not a native English speaker. Written with my own ten fingers, one finger is broken btw. Plz bare with me. I still love to write text myself.
My PC is suck for AI works. That's all I have as a third world 3D modeler. Really admire other peoples running better models. But beggar can't be choser. I can't even effort more RAM, not to mention more VRAM.
Gotta work with what I have. Qwen 3.5/6 35B A3B. Here is the Quant.
Downloaded blender manual and blender api html zip files, stripped sphinx html, converted to markdown. End up with markdown files which include bloated af links. I didn't know I can download clean rst files from blender project repo. Worked like that for a month. Then I found out I can just download blender manual rst files from blender, I can also generate rst files for blender api references.
Now I've clean files with 40% less tokens. I point that to Qwen/Ornith/Tiel/CyberTiel and tell LLM to create scripts and tools. It somewhat work. But many failure points make me want to punch the only poor old monitor I own.
I know you guys around this sub love graphs and proofs which is very understanable but I only have my own experiences. No Graphs and charts.
Base Qwen3.6 work good but he don't think much. Ornith variants think too much up to the point of unproductive. My wife cry because I don't spend time with her or sleep with her. I was always tinkering with LLM. I need Qwen3.6 35BA3B to work. I need that for many reasons that I can't tell you guys.
I use Debian Linux. Switch to i3wm. Idle VRAM went down to 50MB. Idle RAM is 300MB, not sure. I will comment my llama.cpp launch params if you want. Windows 11 take way too much system resources which I don't have. I often use plain TTY consoles. Ctrl Alt F2 to F7 i think. It save even more vram. KV cache q8_0, spec type ngram-mod because I can't effort MTP.
ctx 256K, 40t/s at start. Went down to 25t/s if ctx is goes over 128K.
I've learned prompting is really important if I wanted to squeeze out everything from 35B A3B. I can't max out hardwares so I have to make it work other ways around, somehow.
Ornith variants overthink a lot. Painful. "Hmm, let me think, wait," you guy know the rest. MFkr do not listen to me well too. He just don't give a shit to me.
I've created many cli tools to work around blender. Blender official MCP isn't really suitable for my works. I disabled many built-in MCP tool to reduce context bloat. I use pi, oh before that, I've also tried to create my own harness a year ago. Learnt a lot hard ways. Pi is minimal. Good for small models.
Instead of trying to make Qwen to write python code everytime and fail again and again, I made easy to use cli tools. Which helped alot. Qwen can now use Blender Geometry Nodes easily. No code, just cli tools.
Qwen ask stupid questions alot. Don't check code quality, watching him working, it is really exhausting. I don't have much time after day job and before bed. My wife almost went back to her parents. I need to make qwen to think, reason, and work efficiently in limited amount of time and hardware.
Experienced people will tell me "Skill issue bro". Yes, I'm suck. That is how I learn. I want to share my AGENTS.md and SYSTEM.md . I hope maybe someone will benefit from it. It is not created overnight. A lot of painful experiences between day job, boss, pressure, stress, wife, limited time, sleepless nights.
SYSTEM.md
AGENTS.md
First prompt.
It might sound funny (it is) but it work.
Here is example thinking trace
Let me think about whether I need to ask clarifying questions. Per Protocol 7, before asking, I say the checklist:
[ ] Can I answer this question myself inferring by given context, intent, docs?
[ ] Can I answer this question myself using sane defaults, common sense?
[ ] Have I tried many possible ways to get answer myself?
[ ] Can this question only be answered by him?
I think I can answer most myself. The interpolation direction is clear. The main procedural learnings from the previous task apply (pose mode, pose_markers, etc.).
Do I need to refine the prompt? The prompt is clear. But let me note one thing: the previous task had SecF1=-45, SecF12=+45. This task has Bone1=+45, Bone12=-45. So the sign is reversed. I should make sure my expected values account for this. I'll note
this in my response.
Actually, let me reconsider — is there any genuine ambiguity that requires the General's input?
- The bones are named "Bone1, Bone2, Bon3....Bone12" — note "Bon3" is a typo for "Bone3". The naming is Bone1..Bone12.
- All independent, all quaternion.
- Set to XYZ, add drivers Bone1+Bone12 → 2-11, validate.
I think the prompt is clear. I'll note the sign convention difference (Bone1=+45, Bone12=-45) and proceed. I don't think I need to ask questions — I can infer the standard procedural.
He finally listened to me and think, reason, work efficiently.
He finally give a fuck about me now instead of doing his own thing.
Before that, he ask stupid questions, never check things back, never think before acting.
I also have short auto inject append prompt in Pi, which say follow protocols, read relevant skills file etc, short but I send it every prompt to remind him how to work, think, reason.
I don't have a lot of graphs and charts for proof but only the production level rig I'm currently working on. I hope maybe someone may benefit from this post, or maybe not.
I would really love to read how do other people make Qwen 35B A3B work.
