Dev Suspects Opus 5.5 Reasoning Traces Read Like a Quantized Model Yet Nail the Answers
gandamu_ml · x · 2026-11-07
Developer theo floated a self-admitted conspiracy theory he's "95% sure" about: Opus 5.5's reasoning traces read like a poorly quantized open-weight model's output, yet the correct answer somehow emerges at the end — suggesting Anthropic may be post-processing what it shows. Replying user gandamuml speculated Anthropic would rather poison the displayed story than enable other models to learn from traces, and noted the API probe offers finer visibility into detailed work than the subscription coding quota ($200 free credit/mo). Unverified, but an interesting observation on reasoning-trace authenticity.
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