Many Gemma implementations are or were broken on launch day. The first attempts to fix llama.cpp’s tokenizer were merged hours ago.
replyEveryone hated Qwen3.5 at launch too because so many implementations were broken and couldn’t do tool calling.
You need to ignore social media “I tried this and it sucks” echo chambers for new model releases.
I agree with your criticism. I should have simply said that I had good results with gemma 4 tool use, and agentic coding with gemma 4 didn’t yet work well for me.
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