Qwen3.8 does not “overthink,” as intermediate tokens are not human-like reasoning, with LLMs using traces to augment prompts.
Read the original at old.reddit.com→Intermediate tokens, called "thinking" or "reasoning" actually are nothing like it. Humans do step-by-step reasoning leading to the conclusion. LLMs use intermediate traces to augment their prompt. This explains why...
Original headline: "Stop Anthropomorphisizing Intermediate Tokens: Qwen3.8 doesn't "overthink""
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- Aug 19, 11:09 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source Stop Anthropomorphisizing Intermediate Tokens: Qwen3.8 doesn't "overthink"