Post #3752054
2026-07-12 02:38 UTC
God I remember having to explain to dozens of people that ‘reasoning’ models just exude a lot of text ‘talking to themselves’ and then summarize it. They were all just “It CANT be that silly” and many outright would not believe me, because that was not ‘reasoning’
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@scruiser@awful.systems 2026-07-12 15:27
Sometimes they also glue a bunch of “tools” to help the model reason. The model can call by extruding tokens with the right syntax and then get back information from the “tool” shoved in its context! That way, the model can at least handle stuff like basic arithmetic correctly! Except only sometimes, because the models frequently screw up calling the tools correctly or skip using the tool or any number of other completely dumb mistakes. Oh, and if the tool connects the model to the internet (or any insecure source of text) in any way, shape, or form, congratulations, you’ve now got a massive security vulnerability!