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Schlagbohrer 19 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: GPT-5.6

This shows up in OpenAI's graphs on their announcement page. There is a peak performance datapoint in the graphs past which (to the right on the graph indicating more resources spent) peformance declines. And it's on every graph on that page!

XCSme 19 days ago [–]

And in my tests, that point of "overthinking" depends on the problem's complexity, so it's not necessarily that using "xhigh" is always bad or good.

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