Plain-Text CoT Called 'Alchemy-Era' Observability as Compressed Activations Emerge

Researcher tszzl argues that preserving plain-text chain-of-thought will one day be seen as an 'alchemy era' of observability, and that understanding models' 'alien ontology' from the ground up is the right path. In response, doodlestein introduced FrankenAlignment, a project using a small model to compress activations as a CoT substitute.

2026-09-11 ~ 2026-09-11 · 4 related posts

• tszzl: plain-text CoT observability will look like an alchemical era — tszzl · 2026-09-11
• Plain-text chain-of-thought will look like an alchemical era of observability — UltraRareAF · 2026-09-11
• Preserving plaintext CoTs will look like an alchemical era of observability, argues loop transformer architect — bookwormengr · 2026-09-11
• FrankenAlignment project replaces text CoTs with compressed activations via sidecar model — doodlestein · 2026-09-11