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Vetoing a Reasoning Model for a Live Autocomplete Feature
Product wants to add a reasoning model to a live code-autocomplete feature (suggestions must render within roughly 200ms to feel responsive) so that suggestions are "smarter about edge cases." The current standard-model setup already produces a usable suggestion in about 120ms and satisfies user feedback at a decent rate; the motivating complaint is a handful of cases where the current suggestion misses an edge case a more careful pass would have caught.
- Make the case against using a reasoning model for this feature as specified, using this subject's decision framework explicitly (name the specific conditions that are violated).
- The team still wants to address the underlying complaint (missed edge cases). Propose an alternative that doesn't require paying reasoning-model latency on the live path.
- Under what different framing of the same underlying complaint would a reasoning model actually become the right tool?
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