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Your Model Started Showing Its Work. Now You Have to Handle It.
Reasoning traces are the feature everyone turned on this month and nobody planned for. Handled wrong, they quietly triple your token bill, dump intermediate reasoning full of customer data into your logs, and break your tool loop in a way that looks like the model got dumber. Here is how to treat extended thinking as something you manage at the boundary, not something you print.
Extended Thinking
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