What is a practical reason to use extended thinking / reasoning modes when available?
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Extended thinking buys deeper multi-step reasoning when the problem is hard — trade cost/latency for quality.
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Full Explanation
Extended thinking increases deliberative computation for complex tasks, typically costing more tokens/time. It is not free, not for publishing raw CoT publicly by default, and not a tool-use disable switch.