New mini experiment + blogpost + trajectories! tldr; we boost performance of RLM(GPT-5.2) to double the best performing number (38.7% --> 65.6%) on LongCoT-mini without any training! An example of the mismanaged geniuses hypothesis (MGH) we (@zli11010, @lateinteraction) proposed earlier this month. The LongCoT benchmark showed that frontier LMs and RLMs struggled to solve difficult compositional reasoning tasks. The paper generally attributes this to the RLMs inability to perform task decomposition, but we argue this is more our fault in how we prompt them; this capability is fully available to GPT-5.2 with an RLM harness! Building on @raw_works's insightful blogpost and @sumeetrm / @CharlieLondon02 et al.'s incredibly useful benchmark, where they originally found RLMs to be incapable of solving the MATH and CS splits altogether. We did not train anything since the release of the initial benchmark. To be fully transparent, these results are not meant to be added to their leaderboard either; benchmarks measure isolated capabilities, and we focus on showing (through different, rather specific prompting) that the capabilities required to solve these tasks are available to the models without additional training! It also has implications about how we would go about training these systems. Full blog below, it's a nice read :)