CoT is a farce of internal thought; recurrent depth offers a monitorable alternative
cephaloform · x · 2026-09-02
The argument posits that Chain of Thought (CoT) is a performance, not a true representation of the model's internal thoughts. Recurrent depth can now be monitored effectively, suggesting that future systems might rely on this instead of CoT for understanding model states.
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