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Glimmer Q8 looping in a VS Code harness
Tried Muse Glimmer Q8 for a work research project in VS Code, Pi and Unsloth Desktop to fix bugs in an 800-line HTML game; it looped rereading the same lines, while Qwen 3.8 handled the task.
Muse Glimmer Q8 looping badly/unusable for coding
Disclaimer. This is the first time I've used Muse or VSCode as a harness. The reason I am using VSCode as a harness is this is a research project for my job, and we only have VSCode, Codex, and Claude Code approved for harnesses. I ran it in a folder with only one HTML file (800 lines) that is a Roblox-style COD game. I just gave it a prompt "Can you fix the bugs in the file". It read the file 3 times, found one bug, started to fix it, then got stuck reading the same 10 lines over and over. I imagine it's one of these three issues. • It's a prompt error, being way too vague/open ended for the capabilities of a smaller model. I tried again, with a specific prompt to fix a specific bug, and it still just ends up so confused, trying to grep/find the file despite already having read it, and trying to find the code inside of the file. • It's a limitation of small models running with a large harness/having way too much going on. I tried running it with Pi with its default prompt, and it just got stuck doing tool calls and never actually read the file. Tried running this just directly in the Unsloth Desktop UI with no harness but it failed to parse the file I inputted and tried to gen





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