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elitoday at 7:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

If you read the reasoning trace for Qwen 3.8, it does a whole lot of "uh" and "But, wait..." too


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howunfortunatetoday at 7:22 PM

You're absolutely right - filler words are genuinely load-bearing

Zambytetoday at 7:34 PM

At 1500 tps, "uh" is about 0.7 ms, instead of 200-300 ms for a human.