Comment by alienthrowaway

Sonnet 3.5 is the best non-Chain-of-Thought code-authoring model. When paired with R1's CoT output, Sonnet 3.5 performs even better - outperforming vanilla R1 (and eveything else), which suggests Sonnet is better than R1 at utilizing R1's CoT.

It's scenario where the result is greater than the sum of it's parts