# dbt compile silently fails with empty models

**URL:** <https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/dbt-compile-silently-fails-with-empty-models/15518>\
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**Created:** [September 19, 2024, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/dbt-compile-silently-fails-with-empty-models/15518 "2024-09-19T09:15:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![moseleyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@moseleyi](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/moseleyi)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/dbt-compile-silently-fails-with-empty-models/15518/1 "2024-09-19T09:15:08Z")

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

```auto
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