Token budgets are a poor proxy for inference steering, needing better heuristics
sloppenheimer · x · 2026-08-23
Argues that token budgets poorly model reasoning constraints as models lack budget awareness. Suggests an Entropix-like approach of active steering during inference to find better heuristics than simple token limits.
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