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For me what really drove this point home (that reasoning traces aren't "real" by any reasonable definition of the term) was noticing instances of things being out of order and exhibiting various inconsistencies with the final answer. My favorite was an example posted to HN that went something along the lines of the model first output the conclusion, then performed the supposed derivation after the fact, then stated it needed to verify the earlier conclusion to verify the derivation was correct so it hallucinated a tool call, then it remarked positively about the verification matching, and finally it output a slightly different answer. At no point was the answer actually correct although it was vaguely in the ballpark.