If there’s one thing I’ve learned these past couple of days, it’s to resist the temptation to jab the escape button and start waving my arms! I wonder how much of this cyclical self doubt / self congratulating I go through in my own thoughts without even realising it. If you could verbalise or articulate all the half thoughts, snatches of ideas, feelings and ruminations the human mind goes through on some tasks it might be even more bizarre (or could just be me)

I'm like 90% sure the harnesses inject those tokens into the ai to make them check their work. Things like "but wait" and "but what if..." etc. Like literally inserting them artificially and then say "carry on from here" to the ai so it's working as though it itself output those words so the ai has an opportunity to turn around if its making a mistake. repeat a bunch of times and we get something useful.

I started noticing those in gh copilot right around when they turned off thinking traces end of last year