Comment by dofm

I would characterise it as obsessive, not loopy. It's definitely burning through a lot of tokens to ruminate about aspects of tasks that earlier models get done better seemingly on memory.

I still need to understand that.

Setting a reasoning limit does not seem to have good results, because it really seems to go down rabbit holes and that means that cutting reasoning off too early is going to punish the quality on anything it has not got round to pondering yet. But maybe I have to give it a bit more room.

I have not tested in an agentic sense yet, just with my sort of pet queries in LM Studio, but it rather looks like it expects an agentic flow, because telling it that it's a helpful coding agent and changing the order of things in my prompts (telling it up front to ask any clarifying questions before detailing the rest of the prompt) has definitely kept its thinking a bit more on track.