Hiding Agent Reasoning Costs You Your Debug Trail
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There's a real push toward agents that reason internally - in vectors, not words - and only emit text when they act. It's faster and cheaper. It also quietly removes the thing most teams rely on to figure out why an agent did something strange. That's a decision worth making on purpose. The Idea: Visible Reasoning Is a Logging Choice, Not a Model Feature When an agent "thinks out loud," it generates intermediate text before acting. Those tokens cost money and latency, but they appear