# Think-Anywhere: LLMs Learn to Pause and Reason Mid-Code, Not Just Plan Ahead

- slug: think-anywhere-llms-learn-to-pause-and-reason-mid-code-not-just-plan-ahead
- date: 2026-04-04
- category: Artificial Intelligence

Teaching a code model when to pause turned out to matter more than teaching it how. A Peking University and Alibaba team found that RLVR, a reinforcement learning approach that rewards timing rather than reasoning content, produced a 9.3 point jump on code generation benchmarks — and the model le...

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