Plain-text chain-of-thought will look like an alchemical era of observability

UltraRareAF · x · 2026-09-11

The author argues that the current push to preserve plain-text chain-of-thought will be seen as an alchemical era of observability; we should instead seek to understand models' alien ontology from the ground up.

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