theo suspects Opus 5.5's reasoning traces are decoys designed to break distillation
theo · x · 2026-11-06
theo says he's "95% sure" Opus 5.5's reasoning traces read like a poorly quantized open-weight model, yet the right answer still emerges — speculating the traces don't reflect the model's actual thinking and may be deliberate noise to sabotage distillation. Others note that via the agent API (with $200/month free credit) and keeping summaries enabled, you get finer-grained reasoning traces revealing what the model attends to. Purely speculation; Anthropic hasn't responded.
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