Are 0.6b models useful without fine tuning?

Half of the times I ask qwen 0.6b "what is 1 + 2?" it ends up in a thinking loop of "but wait, the user is asking me to ..."

A fun thing I do with Qwen 3.5 0.8b is to take a screenshot of the Hackernews homepage and ask it to give me a JSON representation of the data and it does surprisingly well. With a well structured prompt I think it could be made to be pretty reliable tool for that type of task out of the box.