Right, I often bring up the film noir analogy for "reasoning" models, it's satisfying, like the revelation when a magic trick is explained, and many oddly disconnected questions about "why the scarf" or "where does the assistant go" all become sensible at once.

On a practical level, I believe more developers and adopters need these magic tricks spoiled, because otherwise they'll build a lot of important stuff on top of the idea that magic-is-real, leading to various forms of suffering in the long run.

That said, I'm no LLM / math academic, so if I'm totally wrong on the the trick, I'd like to know what needs revising.