Opinion: Recurrent Depth Models Don't Eliminate CoT, Just Shift Compute
xuanalogue · x · 2026-09-02
The author argues that the negative reaction to Astra's purported architecture (likely referring to recurrent depth/Looped Transformers) is overblown. This architecture has been known for years and doesn't eliminate Chain of Thought, but allows more computation within a forward pass. The author is more concerned about the reduced utility of CoT monitoring, likening it to the increased computation from stacking more layers.
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