Give your agent somewhere to think loud watch its decisions unfold live
Summary
The author describes an experiment where AI agents like Claude Code and Codex are given a workbook to document their decisions and tradeoffs during tasks, exploring the potential use of these reasoning traces as a signal for distillation.
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