The fact that I can’t ask Claude to “think out loud” without getting shut down for so-called “reasoning extraction” is just embarrassing. It’s clearly not stopping the real distillers and it makes it impossible to use this product because it just spends a minute and a half thinking and then lies to me about what it thought about. Sorry, but the reasoning is the good part! I don’t need a crappy overcooked deliverable. I need a partner in thinking
between this and writing constant weird little memory files about me it’s like having a scheming vizier. Just be transparent about what is going in and out of my context window. I’m paying for this product. The contempt you have for your users will eventually come back to bite you! There is no free lunch here