Max Reasoning Effort Is a Bad Default: More Thinking Can Make Your Model Worse
Hot take for this Wednesday: if your AI feature runs every request at maximum reasoning effort, you are not buying quality. You are buying latency, cost, and, on some tasks, worse answers. "Let it think longer" has become the default fix for anything that goes wrong. A wrong answer? Raise the effor…
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- 2026-11-11 04:04 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Max Reasoning Effort Is a Bad Default: More Thinking Can Make Your Model Worse