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by orojackson 420 days ago
Not gonna lie: the "ultrathink" keyword that Sonnet 3.7 with thinking tokens watches for gives me "doubleplusgood" vibes in a hilarious but horrifying way.
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A little bit of the old ultrathink with the boys
Shot to everyone around a table, thinking furiously over their glasses of milk
At this point should we get our first knob/slider on a language model... THINK

..as if we're operating this machine as analog synth

If you use any of the more direct API sandbox/studio UIs, there are already various sliders, temperature (essentially randomness vs. predictability) being the most common.

The consumer-facing chatbot interfaces just hide all that because they're aiming for a non-technical audience.

I use a cheap MIDI controller in this manner - there is even native browser support. Great to get immediate feedback on parameter tweaks
Maybe a Turbo Think button that toggles between Ultrathink and Megathink.
There are already many such adjustable parameters such as temperature and top_k