Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small Docs Openly List the Model's Weaknesses
shizhediao · x · 2026-11-06
Thinking Machines' release notes for Inkling 2 Small include a candid Limitations section, drawing praise as a "high aura" move.
- The model improves usability over the original Inkling but "isn't the most succinct communicator" and doesn't always pick the best tools, especially in codebases with many skills.
- It natively supports image input but not audio.
- It's less optimized for chat: worse content organization and presentation, overuse of slashes, and overreaction to mental-health and other safety-related queries.
In a release culture of all-upsides marketing, openly publishing weaknesses is being called a practice worth copying.
Related event: Thinking Machines launches Inkling 2 Small, open weights coming next week(42 posts)→
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