Flask Creator Armin Ronacher Defends Model Distillation Against Thinking Trace Concerns

aiamblichus · x · 2026-08-12

Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) strongly pushes back against the narrative that extracting AI thinking traces is bad because it enables distillation. He argues that people should actively want distillation rather than gatekeeping. In response, @aiamblichus jokes that the fear of distillation resembles a kind of "Stockholm syndrome."

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