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naasking01/21/20251 replyview on HN

Strawberry is "difficult" not because the reasoning is difficult, but because tokenization doesn't let the model reason at the level of characters. That's why it has to work so hard and doesn't trust its own conclusions.


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QuadrupleA01/21/2025

Yeah, but it clearly breaks down the spelling correctly in it's reasoning, e.g. a letter per line. So it gets past the tokenization barrier, but still gets hopelessly confused.