{"id":546,"date":"2026-05-04T20:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beginnerprojects.com\/cms\/?p=546"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:36:09","slug":"my-optimized-ollama-continue-setup-on-mac-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beginnerprojects.com\/cms\/my-optimized-ollama-continue-setup-on-mac-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"My Optimized Ollama + Continue Setup on Mac Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was getting constant popup errors in Continue (VS Code extension) when using my Qwen3.6:27b model: “Error parsing Ollama response: expected element type <function> but have <parameter>”<\/em>. Turns out it was a tool-calling template mismatch<\/strong> between Ollama and Continue, fixed by updating Ollama from 0.20.5 to 0.23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why I Updated Ollama (and How)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I run Ollama on my Mac Studio M4 Max (36GB unified memory) and access it over LAN from my CachyOS laptop running VS Code + Continue + Cline extensions. The GUI makes updates dead simple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Click the Ollama menu bar icon<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Choose\u00a0“Restart to update”<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Done! (ollama --version<\/code>\u00a0confirmed 0.23)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Why it mattered<\/strong>: Ollama 0.23 includes updated qwen3.5<\/code> renderer\/parser templates that fixed my Continue parsing errors completely. Older versions had mismatched tool-calling schemas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Peeking Inside: ollama show<\/code><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Curiosity led me to check what was actually happening with my model:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    ollama show qwen3.6:27b --modelfile<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
    Here’s the key section (ignoring license):<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    FROM \/Users\/me\/.ollama\/models\/blobs\/sha256-83c54730a5fea8a0958598c01617c1419c431e93b33bacf980b49a420c798926
    TEMPLATE {{ .Prompt }}
    RENDERER qwen3.5
    PARSER qwen3.5
    PARAMETER top_k 20
    PARAMETER top_p 0.95
    PARAMETER temperature 1<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
    What this tells me<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n