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Closi 45 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” outp...

If you have the full outputs, it might make it easier for competitors to distil the model or reverse engineer the full process.

It may also be that misaligned responses can be in CoT which OpenAI does not want to show to users.

anuramat 45 days ago [–]

but "harder to reverse engineer" isn't manufacturing, that's protecting your moat

Closi 45 days ago | [–]

What is a moat if not something used to protect the castle?

In this case it stops people copying your IP

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