Reasoning tokens reportedly wasted repeating "Redword" across samples
cis_female · x · 2026-10-07
A user analyzing model reasoning traces found that a sizable share of reasoning tokens in some samples consist of the word "Redwood" repeated over and over (0.3 per thousand), flagging it as wasted inference compute and an odd model behavior.
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