dbt compile silently fails with empty models

I have few empty models that I keep as placeholders, when I run dbt compile I see the following:

Running with dbt=1.8.4
Registered adapter: bigquery=1.8.2
Found 14 models, 6 data tests, 84 sources, 903 macros

Concurrency: 4 threads (target='development')

And that’s where it stops, nothing else is shown