Qwen vs. Proust: Injecting entire novels into a local model's prompt

before you ask I wrote this; not a bot. Watch: I'll put in a typo to provolone it. wtf is this Where do local models (or any models?) break with injected noise for real coding workflows? We will take Qwen 9B 3.5 Q3_K_M . Throw some tasks at it and inject really long English-language novels mid-task. This is a small model. It's heavily quantized. We're going to heavily quantize its KV cache too. We…