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overgardtoday at 4:10 PM1 replyview on HN

Yeah, I ran into an overthinking loop with it a couple days ago on a task that shouldn't have been that hard. (It's kind of interesting to watch the internal conversation happening with it). Overall I'm impressed with it, but setting the /effort to medium is what you usually want (it defaults to xhigh). I do wonder if I had made it write out a plan if I would have avoided that though.


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dofmtoday at 6:48 PM

Yes. xhigh can not just overdo the answer, it can also trip itself up and end up writing worse code.

Even in the lower reasoning levels I find I want to like Qwen 3.8 27B and mostly don’t; it’s OK in the low reasoning effort, though.

Muse Glimmer is the one I actually enjoy working with, at least so far.

But I am trying to use it more as a sidekick than as a long horizon developer, because that is a better fit for how I want to use AI, and it appears to have been well trained for that.