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November 2026
Progress update
Decomposing difficult tasks is ... difficult
The system in which reasoning LLM decomposes complex tasks into simpler ones for a weaker LLM to implement loses with single zero-shot thinking LLM but wins with zero-shot non-thinking model. This leaves a lot of room for improvement.
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Scalable oversight by learning to decompose tasks
Our vision and goals for scalable oversight over AI systems.