Comment by dofm

I think so too — it is something to test, for sure.

ETA: a bit of testing before I climb the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.

LM Studio doesn't seem to display the little dropdown to set reasoning effort, so I bodged the chat template on load to get it to choose 'medium'.

As soon as you switch away from xhigh, it goes back to thinking in normal sentences like Qwen 3.6, rather than in sort of quasi caveman.

And you get all the Wait, Actually, No wait… stuff back.

And it is behaving a lot more like it used to. So that is pretty interesting.