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simianwordsyesterday at 6:59 PM2 repliesview on HN

Are you using the thinking model or the non thinking model? Maybe you can share your chat.


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JohnKemenyyesterday at 7:16 PM

I prefer not to due to privacy concerns. Perhaps you can try yourself?

I will say that after checking, I see that the model is set to "Auto", and as mentioned, used almost 8 minutes. The prompt I used was:

    Solve the following problem from a competitive programming contest. Output only the exact code needed to get it to pass on the submission server.
It did a lot of thinking, including

   I need to tackle a problem where no web-based help is available. The task involves checking if a given tree can be the result of inserting numbers 1 to n into an empty skew heap, following the described insertion algorithm. I have to figure out the minimal and maximal permutations that produce such a tree.
And I can see that it visited 13 webpages, including icpc, codeforces, geeksforgeeks, github, tehrantimes, arxiv, facebook, stackoverflow, etc.
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minimaxiryesterday at 7:01 PM

The point of the GPT-5 model is that it is supposed to route between thinking/nonthinking smartly. Leveraging prompt hacks such as instructing it to "think carefully" to force routing to the thinking model go against OpenAI's claims.

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