Stop Anthropomorphisizing Intermediate Tokens: Qwen3.8 doesn't "overthink"

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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 sometimes the answer is very good but the "reasoning" is verbose. Flooding your context window or fighting compaction are different issues. submitted by /u/ThirdWaveCat to r/LocalLLaMA [link] &