I once saw "now that I've slept on it" in Gemini's CoT... baffling.

> Don't get me started on the thinking tokens.

Claude provides nicer explanations, but when it comes to CoT tokens or just prompting the LLM to explain -- I'm very skeptical of the truthfulness of it.

Not because the LLM lies, but because humans do that also -- when asked how the figured something, they'll provide a reasonable sounding chain of thought, but it's not how they figured it out.

This is part of the reason I don't like to use it. I feel it's hiding things from me, compared to other models that very clearly share what they are thinking.

That's not the real thinking, it's a super summarized view of it.