and now... Google’s latest innovation: programmable overthinking.
With Gemini 2.5 Flash, you too can now set a thinking_budget—because nothing says "state-of-the-art AI" like manually capping how long it’s allowed to reason. Truly the dream: debugging a production outage at 2am wondering if your LLM didn’t answer correctly because you cheaped out on tokens. lol.
“Turn thinking off for better performance.” That’s not a model config, that’s a metaphor for Google’s entire AI strategy lately.
At this point, Gemini isn’t an AI product—it’s a latency-cost-quality compromise simulator with a text interface. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Anthropic are out here just… cooking the benchmarks
First the decleration of illegal monopoly..
and now... Google’s latest innovation: programmable overthinking.
With Gemini 2.5 Flash, you too can now set a thinking_budget—because nothing says "state-of-the-art AI" like manually capping how long it’s allowed to reason. Truly the dream: debugging a production outage at 2am wondering if your LLM didn’t answer correctly because you cheaped out on tokens. lol.
“Turn thinking off for better performance.” That’s not a model config, that’s a metaphor for Google’s entire AI strategy lately.
At this point, Gemini isn’t an AI product—it’s a latency-cost-quality compromise simulator with a text interface. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Anthropic are out here just… cooking the benchmarks