> all major vendors throw out the reasoning tokens between turns
That would be surprising to me. The reasoning _is_ the model intelligence in a lot of respects, and so dropping those from the context would affect its output pretty significantly.
I assume that instead they just have a lot of guardrails in place and multiple runtime environments that an individual turns ping-pong between in order to dehydrate/rehydrate the reasoning to keep it hidden from the end user.
That would be surprising to me. The reasoning _is_ the model intelligence in a lot of respects, and so dropping those from the context would affect its output pretty significantly.
I assume that instead they just have a lot of guardrails in place and multiple runtime environments that an individual turns ping-pong between in order to dehydrate/rehydrate the reasoning to keep it hidden from the end user.