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Please be careful about the alternative. I’ve seen o3 doing excessive tool calls and research for relatively simple problems.
by ukblewis 1y ago
Please be careful about the alternative. I’ve seen o3 doing excessive tool calls and research for relatively simple problems.
- Hard_Space 1y agoAfter the last few weeks, where o3 seems desperate to do tool searches or re-crunch a bad gen even though I only asked a question about it, I assumed that the policy is to burn through credits at the fastest possible rate. With this price change, I don't know what's happening now...
- Nextgrid 1y agoAre they actually profitable? A policy to burn through credits only makes sense if they're making a profit on each token - otherwise it would be counterproductive.
- jillesvangurp 1y agoYep, it defaults to doing a web search even when that doesn't make sense. Example, I asked it to write something. And then I asked it to give me that blob of text in markdown format. So everything it needed was already in the conversation. That took a whole minute of doing web searches and what not. I actually dislike using o3 for this reason. I keep the default to 4o. But sometimes I forget to switch back and it goes off boiling the oceans to answer a simple question. It's a bit too trigger happy with that. In general all this version and model soup is impossible to figure out for non technical users. And I noticed 4o is now sometimes starting to do the same. I guess, too many users never use the model drop down.