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PSA: Gemma 4 12B is NOT completely broken for coding and tool calling, you need a special chat template

Via r/LocalLlama
Friday, Jun 5, 2026 · 5:31PM
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This is a PSA for people like me who tried it and hit the wall with tool calls failing left and right, so much so that harnesses like OpenCode just didn't work: There is a fix for that. You need to pass a better chat template file, which is available (I did not write it). See also this comment. To a

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