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Did you try it with high reasoning effort?
Sorry, not directed at you specifically. But every time I see questions like this I can’t help but rephrase in my head: “Did you try running it over and over until you got the results you wanted?”
"Did you try a room full of chimpanzees with typewriters?"
Here's my experience: for some coding tasks where GPT 4.1, Claude Sonnet 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro were just spinning for hours and hours and getting nowhere, GPT 5 just did the job without a fuss. So, I switched immediately to GPT 5, and never looked back. Or at least I never looked back until I found out that my company has some Copilot limits for premium models and I blew through the limit. So now I keep my context small,…
codex -m gpt-5 model_reasoning_effort="high"
I have an issue with the words "understanding", "reasoning", etc when talking about LLMs. Are they really understanding, or putting out a stream of probabilities?
I have an issue with the words "understanding", "reasoning", etc when talking about LLMs. Are they really understanding, or putting out a stream of probabilities?
I have an issue with the words "understanding", "reasoning", etc when talking about LLMs. Are they really understanding, or putting out a stream of probabilities?
Do you yourself really understand, or are you just depolarizing neurons that have reached their threshold?
I have an issue with the words "understanding", "reasoning", etc when talking about LLMs. Are they really understanding, or putting out a stream of probabilities?
Probabilities have nothing to do with it; by any appropriate definition, there exist statistical models that exhibit "understanding" and "reasoning".
I have an issue with the words "understanding", "reasoning", etc when talking about LLMs. Are they really understanding, or putting out a stream of probabilities?
The latter. When "understand", "reason", "think", "feel", "believe", and any of a long list of similar words are in any title, it immediately makes me think the author already drank the kool aid.
I have an issue with the words "understanding", "reasoning", etc when talking about LLMs. Are they really understanding, or putting out a stream of probabilities?
I have an issue with the words "understanding", "reasoning", etc when talking about LLMs. Are they really understanding, or putting out a stream of probabilities?
The latter. When "understand", "reason", "think", "feel", "believe", and any of a long list of similar words are in any title, it immediately makes me think the author already drank the kool aid.