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V4.1 Flash and Opus 5.5 log audit: budget burned on endless knob-fiddling

Having V4.1-Flash-1017 and Opus 5.5 audit V4.1 logs finds a huge share of session budget spent endlessly tweaking minor knobs plus errors, explaining slow progress.

Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)

@teortaxesTexArchived 11 days agoOriginally posted 2026.10.18

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Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) @teortaxesTexOriginally posted 2026.10.18

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V4.1-Flash-1017 and Opus 5.5 audit V4.1's logs. They discover that an enormous fraction of the session budget is spent on fiddling, because it ALWAYS finds the next minor knob to fiddle with. Also, errors. That's the cause of slow progress. Reasoning as such is efficient.

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