On: Best LLM for every budget, updated daily

[jszymborski]

It's _so_ good, I no longer bother with Sonnet and use it locally for everything.

Consider bumping reasoning down to Medium as a default though, I agree with simonw it over thinks https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/

[felineflock → jszymborski]

Isn't there a way to set up a thinking budget so it automatically tells the model "Conclude your reasoning now and provide the final answer." ?