GPT 5.6 Thinking Output Suspected of Being Post-Generated

hichaelmart · x · 2026-07-17

The author believes that GPT 5.6's "thinking" output may not be a real-time reasoning process, but rather a post-hoc summary.

He mentioned being "extremely shocked" upon noticing this, and suspects the thinking traces might be summarized and generated by a separate model.

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