Asking About Dinner Triggers High-Compute Inference
paulnovosad · x · 2026-07-16
The author joked about lowering ChatGPT's thinking level to Medium because a simple question like "what's for dinner?" made it feel like the model "worked for 26 hours and raised the temperature in New Hampshire by 0.2°C."
Ultimately, it's a meme poking fun at heavy reasoning modes being triggered for mundane questions that get over-computed.
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