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Most AI "Reasoning" Traces Are Just the Answer, Written Backwards
Community description: You've probably watched an AI think through a problem step by step, nod along with the logic, and...
Dev.to | Sep 11, 2026 | Dhruv Jani
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Two of their four tests: Early Answering — truncate the reasoning partway, force a final answer, see if it matches the full-reasoning answer. This compares the same model with more test-time reasoning budget. Reasoning effort and reasoning faithfulness aren't the same knob.
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