Big models are “wiser” while more reasoning makes them more “diligent”
breath_mirror · x · 2026-07-28
The post argues that bigger models are more “wise” while higher reasoning effort makes models more “diligent.”
- Large models bring broader expertise, stronger intuition, and better cross-domain connection-making.
- More reasoning effort improves thoroughness: it checks more paths, edge cases, and consequences.
- The key distinction is that diligence can exhaustively evaluate options, but it cannot replace the kind of creative leap that a larger model may make.
- The attached chart is mocked as a “wrong chart” while comparing model cost and efficiency across several frontier systems.
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