CoT is performative and doesn’t reveal how reasoning happens. If you look at those traces locally it’s just gibberish, especially if the model falls into a loop

CoT is performative and doesn’t reveal how reasoning happens. If you look at those traces locally it’s just gibberish, especially if the model falls into a loop. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11746 https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11746