Paying for invisible reasoning tokens feels absurd vs open models
mariofilhoml · x · 2026-08-31
A developer observes that the more they use open models, the more absurd it feels to pay for reasoning tokens that are never visible to the user, contrasting this with the open source ecosystem.
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