Yacine: Chain-of-Thought Is Good for Monitorability but Not Cheap, and I Won't Pay for It
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-04
Developer Yacine (yacineMTB) argues chain-of-thought's real value is monitorability, but it isn't great at being both good and cheap. He says he'll pick against CoT every time, backing acceleration with his credit card and putting money toward an 'exploit bench' like reverse-engineered PS2 games.
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