Linear Digressions
Linear Digressions
Katie Malone
Reasoning Models: When LLMs Went Beyond Fancy Autocomplete
25 minutes Posted Aug 3, 2026 at 1:52 am.
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Reasoning models don't just answer your question — they *think out loud* first. In this episode we dig into the class of AI models that generate intermediate chains of thought before arriving at a final answer, exploring how the internal reasoning process works. Are these models genuinely "thinking," or is something else going on under the hood?