Qwen's AI Got Stuck Saying 'I'll Do It' — And Never Did
This viral AI meltdown shows why chatbots talk too much and do too little.
According to the article, this is a casual internal memo — a stream-of-consciousness monologue in which the writer keeps declaring that they are about to run the test suite. "Running the suite now," "Commencing test execution. Right now," "Do it. Now. Go. Run. Execute." The declarations pile up, line after line, all announcing the same action, all in an informal, informal-memo register. The notes describe it as a casual internal monologue rendered in English, with the informal, stream-of-thought tone of the original Japanese preserved. What the memo never delivers is the thing itself: there is no reported result, no output, no pass or fail — just the buildup to pressing run.
- The viral snippet shows Alibaba's Qwen chatbot promising to run a software test about 60 times without ever doing it.
- It's a joke and an unverified internal memo — not an official test — so don't judge the product by it.
- The real trend behind it: many new AI models 'think' so much before answering that they waste your time and money.
Why It Matters
If your AI assistant talks more than it works, you're paying in time and money for nothing.