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Glossary: Running Open Models Locally

Thinking

Also written: thinking model, --think=false, reasoning_effort, --reasoning

Reasoning text some models write before their answer. It helps with hard problems but wastes time on easy ones, so it can be switched off with settings such as `--think=false`, `think=False`, `reasoning_effort="none"` or `--reasoning off`.

Where the book teaches it

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