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The benchmarks in the stream appears to show that GPT-5 performs WORSE than other models unless you enable thinking?


Um... if I want an intelligence, when would I not want it to think?


I mean, I don’t disagree. Why even bother with a non-thinking mode?


Some kinds of writing benefit from seat of the pants vibing. The reasoning models are often more dry




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