MParakhin's tip for coding with Carbon: raise reasoning effort and let it review changes longer
MParakhin · x · 2026-11-12
Mikhail Parakhin, replying to Microsoft's Carbon coding tool developer, shares his usage tip: increase the reasoning effort so the model spends longer reviewing its own changes and digs deeper into long-tail bugs. A concrete knob-turning tip for agentic coding tools.
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