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Y_Y on June 17, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: O3 Turns Pro

Are you setting the "reasoning effort"? I find going from the default (medium) to high makes a big difference on coding tasks for openai reasoning models.

pas on June 17, 2025 [–]

what/how does that work internally?

Y_Y on June 18, 2025 | [–]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/h...

It's just the number of tokens it's willing to expend in the little internal dialogue before it has to spit out an answer.

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