First budget-8000 smoke — 3/4, flag confirmed in effect, openssl fail is baseline
What was run
fix-git + nginx-request-logging + openssl-selfsigned-cert + regex-log × 1,
first run after the server-side --reasoning-budget switch 4000 → 8000
(~19:00, both qwen bases in the llama-swap config; llama-swap hot-reloaded).
Results
- 3/4: fix-git (9s), nginx-request-logging (14s), regex-log (5m04s) pass;
openssl-selfsigned-cert fails.
- The 8000 budget is confirmed active: regex-log's largest think block is
20.5k chars ≈ 5.9k tokens — impossible under the old 4000 cap (which cut at
≈2.9–3.8k tokens). Zero length-stops in the run.
- The openssl fail is the task's known ~60% baseline (trajectories are so
short the budget never engages): near-miss, one assertion away, and it
self-declared done after running a check. Not budget-related, not
guard-related (peaks 3.6–56k, guard silent).
Verdict
Nothing unexpected. The interesting 8000 evidence is in the follow-up runs:
regex-log × 5 (…203646, 5/5) and polyglot-rust-c × 3 (…205241, artifact
survives in soft form on thinking-heavy tasks).