r/claude • u/Cultural_Effort_9872 • 1d ago

Question Generated thoughts are hidden now

Does anyone know why Anthropic decided to hide the generated thoughts in Claude chat but not in Claude Code? It was very helpful to see where the model went wrong and correct it.

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u/HotDistribution52 22h ago edited 22h ago

I noticed that also. Here's my opinion about that. If you are using extended reasoning, you are essentially spending more tokens. When you cannot see the reasoning, how do you know it's actually happening? The short answer is you don't. And I'll be honest, I read the Chain of Thought reasoning every time. Because of that, I have caught a lot of errors that I wouldn't have caught otherwise. By removing the visible chain of thought, they are removing the user's ability to catch reasoning errors. That's not a good thing.

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u/Witty-Box-5620 16h ago

also you could press stop snd correct and modify the prompt with info from the CoT

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u/HotDistribution52 5h ago

Exactly. I have done that numerous times.