Preserving plain-text CoTs will look like 'the alchemical era of observability'
gandamu_ml · x · 2026-09-11
tszzl argues that the current era of painstakingly preserving plain-text chains of thought will be seen as 'an alchemical era of observability' — we could instead build understanding of the model's alien ontology from the ground up. gandamuml quips it's like the Esperanto movement: inaccurate but funny, and irrelevant either way.
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