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Genuine question, is the reasoning chain different from clicking the status bar under a reply and watching it "think"? Or selecting the "Thinking" transcript vi

by hectdev 2mo ago

Genuine question, is the reasoning chain different from clicking the status bar under a reply and watching it "think"? Or selecting the "Thinking" transcript view in Claude Code? (both on the desktop app). Seems to me that is very out in the open

pmxi 2mo ago
That's a summarized and filtered view of the actual reasoning. OpenAI and Anthropic guard the real reasoning closely. Users have never been able to see it and the API returns an encrypted blob instead of legible reasoning.
- hectdev 2mo ago
  Got it. Thanks
- wren6991 2mo ago
  Older models did show the full unredacted thinking trace, but I don't think Opus has ever shown full CoT. Here is an archived version of Anthropic's API docs saying that Sonnet 3.7 (only) has unredacted CoT on API: https://web.archive.org/web/20260324051339/https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/extended-thinking#summarized-thinking https://web.archive.org/web/20260324051339/https://platform....
  - pmxi 2mo ago
    That’s cool. I knew o1 hid it since launch, so I assumed Anthropic would also have never shown it.