> You see this with humans. Really, really smart humans are often the wrong people to hire for simple work because they tend to overthink that work. The same thing seems to be true with LLMs. Give a frontier reasoning model what is fundamentally a simple task and it may sit there spinning its wheels for five minutes attempting to figure out what is hard about it. Sometimes there was nothing hard about it. It just needed to answer.
> You see this with humans. Really, really smart humans are often the wrong people to hire for simple work because they tend to overthink that work. The same thing seems to be true with LLMs. Give a frontier reasoning model what is fundamentally a simple task and it may sit there spinning its wheels for five minutes attempting to figure out what is hard about it. Sometimes there was nothing hard about it. It just needed to answer.
Judgment (wisdom?) is orthogonal to intelligence.