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Reasoning Models: When LLMs Went Beyond Fancy Autocomplete

August 3, 2026 · 25 min

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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?

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