Comment by macNchz
5 months ago
Reasoning models pretty reliably seem to do worse at exacting output formats/structured outputs—so far with Aider it has been an effective strategy to employ o1 to “think” about the issue at hand, and have Sonnet implement. Interested to try various approaches with 3.7 in various combinations of reasoning effort.
It’s funny because I also have found myself doing this exact with R1+Sonnet 3.5 recently. Windsurf allows you to do a chat mode exchange with one model and then switch to another to implement. The reasoning models all seem pretty poorly implemented for the agentic workflows, but work well when paired with Claude.