User observation: Prompts shifted from 'think harder' to 'focus'
WolframRvnwlf · x · 2026-08-16
A user notes a funny shift: we used to prompt models to think harder and do more work, but now we have to rein them in and make them focus. While it's possible to switch down from reasoning intensity, the user hesitates to do so yet because the model still makes mistakes.
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