Reasoning models are less capable of identifying useful incremental directions in messy, long-horizon contexts with vague objectives.

“But within some much messier context,”

“it's kind of not very good at figuring out what directions are especially useful for you to build things or kind of make incremental progress on that enables you to have a big kind of innovation later down the line.”

“So thinking about both this like larger context as well as maybe much longer horizon.”

“much fuzzier things that you're optimizing for.”

“I think it's much worse at those types of things.”