Yeah, I dunno. For me it does "talk normally" for the most part when used in an actual coding harness.

One thing though, the actual prompt I used was pretty long (844 words), and ... generated by GPT-5.6 Sol (lol), with the intent of "benchmarking" model performance in being able to write stories where the model avoids explicitly stating every detail in the prompt.

I wonder if the GPT-produced stream could steer the generation into GPT-think territory. That's all I've got, though.

Then there's the actual geometry problem from the stolen thoughts paper:

  Let ABCDE be a convex pentagon with AB=14, BC=7, CD=24, DE=13, EA=26, and ∠B=∠E=60◦. For f(X)=AX+BX+CX+DX+EX, the least value of f(X) is m+n√p (p squarefree). Find m+n+p.