[CharlesW]

> It's mainly that people on here, regardless of profession, speak incorrectly but confidentally about things that could be easily verified with a Google search or basic familiarity with the thing in question.

Yep. And if your heart wants to call Haiku a "reasoning model", obviously you must listen. It doesn't meet that bar for me for a couple reasons: (1) It lacks both "adaptive thinking" and "interleaved thinking" (per Anthropic, both critical for reasoning models), and (2) it also performed unacceptably with a real-world collection of very basic reasoning tasks that I tried using it for.¹ I'm glad you're having better luck with it.

That said, it's a great and affordable little model for what it was designed for!

¹ I once made the mistake of converting a bunch of skills (which require basic reasoning) to use Haiku for Axiom (https://charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/). It failed miserably, and wow, did users let me have it. On the bright side, as a result I'm now far better at testing models' ability to reason.