If you're not using reasoning, or doing something loosely reasoning-like, I think the base models are better. I was using reasoning models bc I was hoping for a particular thing. 

elvismercury

 to give me book recs it hallucinated some. It did a really excellent job here even if it echos a lot of the prompt as usual.

bitcoin

Bitcoin future prospects: an LLM conversation

Last time I tried to get `o1` to give me book recs it hallucinated some. It did a really excellent job here even if it echos a lot of the prompt as usual.