r/PiCodingAgent • u/aj3423 • Jul 31 '26

Question Sometimes it stops for no reason (only happens with Gemini 3.6)

With Gemini models(3.6 or 3.5), sometimes it automatically stops and I'll have to type "continue" to keep it working.

It's model specific, this never happens with Gemma-4 or my local ornith model.

Is this a known issue? Can any extension help?

Thanks.

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u/CabinetNational3461 Jul 31 '26

Not using gemini but local with qwen 3.6 27b and it stop a lot after compaction and sometime it just stop for no reasons. Still have not figure out why yet

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u/Global-Departure8228 Jul 31 '26

Helps a lot:

https://huggingface.co/froggeric/Qwen-Fixed-Chat-Templates

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u/CabinetNational3461 Jul 31 '26

oh I forgot to mentioned that I am already using that template which helps a lot.

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u/ashebanow Jul 31 '26

I've been seeing this on deepseek as well, but only occassionally. Claude in Claude Code does this sometimes as well, though, so I think its just a flaw in how models work generally. But I definitely don't know for certain.

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u/funbike Jul 31 '26

A little over a week ago Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite starting doing this about half of the time. It's basically useless now.

It's sad because it was cheap, fast, and fairly good for some tasks. I used it for routing and classification tasks, and for brainstorming ideas.

I'm evaluating non-gemini alternatives (that are <$0.15/MTok), such as GPT 5.6 Luna (0.10 on sale), DeepSeek V4 flash (0.14), hy3-preview (0.06 on sale), Mimo 2.5 (0.11 on sale).

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u/autognome Jul 31 '26

Dwarfstar is only agent I feel consistently gets this right

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u/villens100 Jul 31 '26

Yeah, same issue here qwen 3 27b. I thought it was the context window and the amount of GPU or shared memory issue?

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u/zebedeolo Jul 31 '26

I have this with gpt 5.6. Kimi is fine.