Debating OpenAI's "Recurrent Depth": Not harder to monitor, just deeper
max_paperclips · x · 2026-09-02
Citing concerns that OpenAI's new "recurrent depth" reasoning approach obscures model thinking and makes monitoring harder, the author argues that if it is literally a recurrent depth transformer, the fear is unwarranted. They suggest it is no more obscure than scaling up a standard transformer with early exits.
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