How closely do you read model thinking traces? The fatigue-vs-oversight tradeoff
infieldmitt · reddit · 2026-09-22
A Reddit discussion on how much attention people pay to model thinking traces. The author finds that following along the whole time — as the model says "but wait" 20 times and re-reasons something from 20 minutes ago — is exhausting, yet skipping them entirely means missing mistakes. They configured pi to show thinking blocks by default but still find them hard to read for long, and ask how others handle this tradeoff.
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