Claude quietly removed visible reasoning traces in its latest apps
CelebrationLast347 · reddit · 2026-07-26
The post notes that around the release of Claude Opus 5, users started seeing “Thought process is unavailable” across Claude’s web, desktop, and mobile apps.
It argues that Anthropic’s newer documentation points in the same direction: models may still reason internally, but raw chain-of-thought is no longer returned, and even summarized reasoning may be omitted by default. The author acknowledges concerns about exposing sensitive information or enabling distillation, but says removing visible reasoning makes AI less inspectable, especially for coding, research, finance, or legal workflows where the final answer alone may hide a flawed premise. The post’s broader claim is that as AI gets more autonomous, it should become more auditable rather than more opaque.
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