Telling a cheap model to "think a little" made it slower and sometimes silent
This story is from 2026-10-15. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.
I told a model to think less, and it started thinking. That's the whole bug. But how I got there is worth writing down, because anyone putting one endpoint in front of several model families will probably hit some version of it. The setup: I build a desktop app that can talk to a model three ways.…
Read the full story at DEV Community — AI ↗
Timeline · 1 report
- 2026-10-15 03:49 · DEV Community — AI
Telling a cheap model to "think a little" made it slower and sometimes silent