max_tokens=700 on a reasoning model returned empty replies — hidden thinking tokens was the whole budget
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For three nights straight my job-digest pipeline produced nothing. The pipeline pulls raw job-posting results, calls an LLM to write a 200-word digest, and stores the output. Mid-week I upgraded the digest call from a standard chat model to a reasoning model — smarter model, better summaries, or so…
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- 2026-10-05 03:34 · DEV Community — AI
max_tokens=700 on a reasoning model returned empty replies — hidden thinking tokens was the whole budget