The big problem with overthinking on a dense model is obviously the speed hit you take. Going from Qwen 35BA3B to 27B for me is about 7-8x slower (should be ~9x?). This makes me a lot less patient for useless thinking tokens.

I’d want to compare this to the new Muse 30B model which is super terse and has a whole different way of thinking (no “Wait,”) and in my experiments was way more token efficient to the point that the absolute tok / s didn’t really matter.