I think this is a bug. I've not seen this problem from any of the other frontier models.

I would also consider this a bug. I think ajy reasonable consumer would.

Insanity 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do other models put a hard cap on the output tokens it can generate?

	▲	simonw 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, the OpenAI GPT-6 Astra limit is 128,000 as well: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-6-astra Gemini 3.8 Flash is 65,536 https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.8-flas...