Thinking models think through talking, don't reveal that talking, then answer by again thinking through talking. It's kinda funny in a way.
I always expose reasoning traces. How else can you seriously debug?
The closed models aren't giving you the real thinking traces, though.
Those traces are just summaries of the reasoning.
Re:GPT-5.6
by alfiedotwtf on Saturday July 11, 2026 @05:45AM
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It’s wild the people don’t want to see the thinking
We will probably just get reader-side affordances for this like auto-folded justification and introduction sections and so on.
Doubtless some chat interface will add this the way they’ve added reasoning folding.