It does seem like some of the messaging gets away from their actual documentation: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning-best-practices https://plat

It does seem like some of the messaging gets away from their actual documentation: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning-best-practices https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning-best-pract... The reasoning models improve on this kind of thing, but that just means they do even better when provided with or asked to create and follow a process. o3-mini-high, since it shows its work, didn't just spit out a process. It showed the process of creating the process in its reasoning block. It considered the format above in there and removed and added things while considering different levels of detail before the final version before producing anything.