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Theyre training the system to minimize compute,so most likely theyre dynamically downgrading quants in the first few turns hoping to find the cheapest model to run. The side effect may be excessive token gen

Sure. That’s possible. But that’s not what I was talking about.

Tomato, technical tomato

There is a theory that the verbosity and comments help getting better results with the current benchmarks. So the models are theoretically getting better but in practice they are getting worse.

I believe they are genuinely getting better for fully autonomous tasks. Anthropic seems to have gone all in on this, at the expense of more typical usage patterns.

Are you implying they can’t do both?

Yes, those things are mutually exclusive.

You're joking, right? That's an incredibly outmoded view of capitalist "competition."