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How Logically Inconsistent Prompts Can Turn Reasoning Models Into a DoS Problem

Summary by DEV Community
Reasoning models are supposed to be better at hard tasks because they “think” before answering. In practice, that extra step-by-step process creates a new attack surface: if you can push the model into overthinking, you can make it spend far more tokens than normal and slow it down for everyone else. That’s the core finding from a recent study presented at ICML 2026 by researchers from Zhejiang University and Alibaba. They show that carefully co…
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DEV Community broke the news on Monday, July 13, 2026.
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