Those Model 'Thinking' Phrases Aren't Real Reasoning Traces
rao2z · x · 2026-10-06
Researcher rao2z clarifies that the comforting phrases frontier models flash while users wait are not actual chain-of-thought traces. Since o1, labs hide real traces from paying users (who still pay for those tokens), showing generated "commentary" instead — the notable exception being DeepSeek-R1, which exposes full, often incoherent, page-long reasoning.
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