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Thinking Twice Can Make You Dumber: The Test-Time Compute Playbook Behind September's Smartest Models
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Dev.to | Oct 8, 2026 | Daniel Sam Pete Thiyagu
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Think longer during the test — test-time compute. Sequential thinking (the long chain of thought). Small + optimal thinking can beat 14x larger + naive thinking (Snell et al. , 2024).
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