Comment by sbinnee

I don't get the point of this post. Personally, I think that the thinking process is essential for accurate tool usage. Whenever I interact with Claude family models, either on a web chat or via a coding agent CLI, I believe that this thinking process is what makes Claude more accurate in using tools.

It could be true that newer models just produce more tokens seemingly out of no reasons. But with the increasing number of tool definitions, in the long run, I think it will pay off.

Just a few days ago, I read "Interleaved Thinking Unlocks Reliable MiniMax-M2 Agentic Capability"[1]. I think they have a valid point that this thinking process has significance as we are moving towards agents.

[1] https://www.minimax.io/news/why-is-interleaved-thinking-impo...