LLM Trapped in Reasoning Doom Loop of 'hmm' and 'WAIT'

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-06

A developer observed that when an LLM encounters incomprehensible errors, it triggers a 'let's think dot by dot' latent reasoning mode. The model gets stuck in a doom loop, generating massive amounts of meaningless text like hmm, WAIT, and hold on, ultimately leading to an unrecoverable reasoning collapse.

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