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Review of IBM's new open weight model by a bigtech bro

I had a shortish exploratory chat with Granite4.1:8b tonight...
mildly autistic place of business field
  04/30/26
who cares
hairraiser autistic area
  04/30/26
I understood like half of that. Explain it like I don't read...
navy nighttime church love of her life
  04/30/26
It's designed to be fast and it was trained on high quality ...
mildly autistic place of business field
  04/30/26
What does "no reasoning" mean?
navy nighttime church love of her life
  04/30/26
Everyone thought they needed reasoning models to get the bes...
mildly autistic place of business field
  04/30/26
What does that mean? Doesn't it need to do reasoning to foll...
navy nighttime church love of her life
  04/30/26
The model still has to follow intermediate steps during prom...
mildly autistic place of business field
  04/30/26
Yeah ofc, I just didn't know what "reasoning" mean...
navy nighttime church love of her life
  04/30/26
Like how chat gpt and claude for "hard problems" w...
drunken den
  04/30/26
Got it, I thought it might mean that. I totally believe it c...
navy nighttime church love of her life
  04/30/26
Would never use something that has "deterministic outpu...
drunken den
  04/30/26
I have news for you about women
Clear titillating party of the first part
  04/30/26
what tokens/sec are you getting
Stubborn Heady Idiot
  04/30/26


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Date: April 30th, 2026 10:54 PM
Author: mildly autistic place of business field

I had a shortish exploratory chat with Granite4.1:8b tonight.

It is a good model. The outputs feel something akin to deterministic which reflects the enterprise deployment IBM is shooting for. Input -> Output. The voice is pleasant and not overly beepboop robot. It hyperfixates on patterns (one message with a list kicks off 5 more) but it responses really well to faux system messages correcting it. The world knowledge is good and nuanced for an 8b model.

If I had a no-human-in-the-loop pipeline for evaluations or content parsing or something I’d 100% reach for Granite 4.1 first. It’s like,,, instruct tuned but only enough to accomplish its intended goal.

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Oh! And! No reasoning! As an engineered design constraint. Neat!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862289&forum_id=2Elisa#49856001)



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Date: April 30th, 2026 10:56 PM
Author: hairraiser autistic area

who cares

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862289&forum_id=2Elisa#49856010)



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Date: April 30th, 2026 10:56 PM
Author: navy nighttime church love of her life

I understood like half of that. Explain it like I don't read hackernews

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862289&forum_id=2Elisa#49856011)



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Date: April 30th, 2026 11:00 PM
Author: mildly autistic place of business field

It's designed to be fast and it was trained on high quality data. IBM really went their own direction

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862289&forum_id=2Elisa#49856026)



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Date: April 30th, 2026 11:02 PM
Author: navy nighttime church love of her life

What does "no reasoning" mean?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862289&forum_id=2Elisa#49856029)



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Date: April 30th, 2026 11:09 PM
Author: mildly autistic place of business field

Everyone thought they needed reasoning models to get the best chat experience, but now with agentic harnesses the reasoning becomes a waste of tokens. I have it disabled in my Hermes Agent because it's too fuckin slow. IBM basically just saved us all from having to manually disable it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862289&forum_id=2Elisa#49856064)



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Date: April 30th, 2026 11:10 PM
Author: navy nighttime church love of her life

What does that mean? Doesn't it need to do reasoning to follow instructions?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862289&forum_id=2Elisa#49856068)



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Date: April 30th, 2026 11:28 PM
Author: mildly autistic place of business field

The model still has to follow intermediate steps during prompt processing, people are just finding more efficient ways to do it. One model (I forget which one) keeps the entire prompt intact at each layer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862289&forum_id=2Elisa#49856095)



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Date: April 30th, 2026 11:54 PM
Author: navy nighttime church love of her life

Yeah ofc, I just didn't know what "reasoning" meant and was too lazy to search

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862289&forum_id=2Elisa#49856136)



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Date: April 30th, 2026 11:33 PM
Author: drunken den

Like how chat gpt and claude for "hard problems" will go into a "chain of thought" where it "reasons". I turn it off for basic chats and only use it when I'm having it solve something difficult. Also sometimes it makes it stupider believe it or not. Also way faster without it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862289&forum_id=2Elisa#49856103)



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Date: April 30th, 2026 11:53 PM
Author: navy nighttime church love of her life

Got it, I thought it might mean that. I totally believe it could make it stupider in some cases. I'll turn that off on the ones I use and see if the results are better.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862289&forum_id=2Elisa#49856134)



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Date: April 30th, 2026 11:31 PM
Author: drunken den

Would never use something that has "deterministic outputs"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862289&forum_id=2Elisa#49856098)



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Date: April 30th, 2026 11:36 PM
Author: Clear titillating party of the first part

I have news for you about women

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862289&forum_id=2Elisa#49856105)



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Date: April 30th, 2026 11:55 PM
Author: Stubborn Heady Idiot

what tokens/sec are you getting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862289&forum_id=2Elisa#49856142)