gaslighting people by pretending that encrypting reasoning traces between agent and client is a win for "private AI"... the title should be rewritten as it is plainly conceding -- Closed AI providers use encrypted reasoning traces to hide what the model is doing to come to a conclusion. This is not scientific progress, this is molopoly protectionism. No person using these models wants the reasoning traces hidden from them, it prevents the user from learning how conclusions about a question are derived.