Why letting an AI think longer can flip a wrong answer to a right one
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Try this on a friend: a bat and a ball cost $1.10 together, and the bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much is the ball? Almost everyone blurts "10 cents." It feels right. It's wrong. If the ball were 10 cents, the bat would be $1.10, and together they'd cost $1.20. The real answer is 5 cents. That gap between the fast, confident wrong answer and the slower right one is the whole story of reasoning models. And it's the thing I built Day 27 of AIFromZero around. Two places you can spend…
1Key Takeaways
- Try this on a friend: a bat and a ball cost $1.10 together, and the bat costs $1.00 more than the ball.
- Almost everyone blurts "10 cents." It feels right.
- If the ball were 10 cents, the bat would be $1.10, and together they'd cost $1.20.
- That gap between the fast, confident wrong answer and the slower right one is the whole story of reasoning models.
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3Why it matters
Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that try this on a friend: a bat and a ball cost $1.10 together, and the bat costs $1.00 more than the ball.
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