The reasoning tokens that were revealed were clearly never intended for human consumption, as evidenced by a snippet of GPT-5.5 thinking about CSS in raw, fragmentary notes.

Extracted raw chains of thought read like internal implementation notes—the GPT-5.5 CSS example is fragmentary and clearly not written for human readers. ✦ AI generated

Article author (via Hacker News) · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-11 · original ↗

The reasoning tokens that were revealed were clearly never intended for human consumption. Here's GPT-5.5 thinking about some CSS: Need app.css truncated. Need maybe not need. We'll replace entire app.css. Need create components. Need include keyboard support. Need accessible primitives. Need think architecture. Svelte 5. Components: - Button.svelte: variants, size, loading, disabled, children snippet, optional icon?

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