Gemini 4 Carbon Burns 45 Minutes and 262k Tokens, Delivers No Code Review
No-Park606 · reddit · 2026-11-11
A Reddit user reports that Gemini 4 Carbon on the high reasoning setting spent 45 minutes thinking and burned roughly 262k tokens on a code review task — without producing any review output. The post asks whether others have hit the same issue, fueling discussion about runaway reasoning budgets and whether higher reasoning effort actually translates into better results.
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