The Cognitive Revolution · Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Bronson Shine references the MetaCOT paper from January of last year, which he finds highly relevant for understanding AI reasoning. The paper details comparisons across models and discusses techniques for extracting CoT traces from frontier models, some of which have since been patched.
“I think one of the papers that I go back to a lot is called MetaCOT. It's from January of last year, whatever.”
“And they do some very interesting comparisons kind of across models. Own cot traces that were recently extracted from frontier models using a clever model switch and jailbreak technique, which has since been patched.”