Study identifies "reasoning rigidity" as a distinct LLM failure mode
A paper highlighted by Rachel Thomas defines "reasoning rigidity": reasoning models pathologically rely on familiar problem-solving templates, overriding explicitly stated conditions. The authors argue it is a distinct failure mode separate from hallucination and prompt brittleness.
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