Yacine Benji coins "spinbusy": frontier LLMs spin in place wasting tokens
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-13
Yacine Benji observes a typical behavior in current frontier LLMs he calls spinbusy: repeatedly making the least incremental progress toward a goal instead of just doing the obvious thing and completing it—wasting tokens, running tests, burning time.
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