Dev quips that browse-heavy compute beats long-CoT for most users
willcb · x · 2026-09-11
Developer willcb argues that really-long-CoT inference-time compute is great for hard math problems, but look-at-tons-of-websites compute is probably more useful to most people — quipping 'thank you openai' at the tradeoff.
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