However smart AI gets, it still can't pick the right reasoning effort level
sytelus · x · 2026-09-13
A short quip: no matter how smart AIs become, they still can't decide on their own whether to think at low, medium, high, or max reasoning effort for a given prompt — highlighting the awkward reality that users must still manually choose thinking levels on reasoning models.
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