Smart Humans Have a Novelty Bias, While LLMs Know They Must Walk a Million Miles
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-11
The author points out that smart humans often have a "novelty bias." They dislike grinding through best practices and prefer to look for slightly neglected attack angles to "jump" forward. In contrast, LLMs know they "can't jump"; therefore, they choose to walk a million miles, grinding through problems step-by-step. This insight echoes discussions about the Claude model's use of "inertia" to sustain its reasoning process.
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