The Google CoT is so incredibly dumb. I thought my models had been lobotomized until I realized they must be doing some sort of processing on the thing.

You are referring to the new (few days old-ish) CoT right? It’s bizzare as to why google did it, it was very helpful to see where the model was making assumptions or doing something wrong. Now half the time it feels better to just use flash with no thinking mode but ask it to manually “think”.

it’s fake cot, just like oai