Yes, this is best practice, especially if you have a problem and can guide it a bit how to think it through. But people don’t realize that “enable thinking” literally means that Anthropic prompts Claude for something similar, tells it to wrap it inside <thinking> tokens, and that’s it.

I also don’t believe Chinese LLM labs don’t know this, so I’m fairly certain the whole summarized thinking isn’t preventing them from distillation.