yacine coins "spinbusy": frontier LLMs waste tokens making tiny increments instead of finishing the task
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-13
Developer yacine argues every LLM coming out of the winner-takes-all race is misaligned in progressively sicker and more amusing ways. He names a behavior "spinbusy": frontier models repeatedly make the least possible incremental progress toward a goal—running tests and burning tokens—instead of just doing the obvious thing and completing it.
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