What is a reasoning model?

A reasoning model works through a problem before answering, rather than answering straight away.

Navid Moazzezby Navid MoazzezUpdated Sept. 12, 20261 min read
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It spends more output tokens and more time, and does much better on anything with steps.

On a simple rewrite it is slower for no gain. The skill is knowing which kind of job you have.