You could perhaps show the "instant" reply right away and provide a button labeled "Think longer and give me a better answer" that starts the thinking model and eventually replaces the answer.

For this to work well, the instant reply must be truly instant and the button must always be visible and at the same position in the screen (i.e. either at the top or bottom, of the answer, scrolling such that it is also at the top or bottom of the screen), and once the thinking answer is displayed, there should be a small icon button to show the previous instant answer.

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michaelmrose 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Wouldn't this be 1.5x as expensive?

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jimbokun 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Not if the Instant answer is sufficient.

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resters 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That's assuming that the instant answer is even directionally correct. A misleading instant answer could pollute the context and lead the thinking model astray.

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		Can the context of the pre-revision, Instant response be simply be discarded -- or forked or branched or [insert appropriate nomenclature here] -- instead of being included as potential poison? (It seems absurd that to consider that there may be no undo button that the machine can push.)