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Cost Optimization Risks Worsening AI Model Retrieval and Reasoning Flaws

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sarah guo@saranormous#222inTech

3/ folks broadly complain about models being “nerfed” but interesting to think about specific bad behaviors in models that I expect might get worse as companies “compute/cost-optimize” their general products

sarah guo@saranormous

2/ so they’re the low-effort, “feels fluent” default, and the model emits them from memory instead of reading the source, unless user/agent forces it to retrieve. they don’t want to think critically! in novel ways! it is hard!

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sarah guo@saranormous

4/ unclear if it’s just the upstream pretraining data or the actual reward today of faster time-to-answer/less external call

sarah guo@saranormous

3/ folks broadly complain about models being “nerfed” but interesting to think about specific bad behaviors in models that I expect might get worse as companies “compute/cost-optimize” their general products

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