Reasoning leak
CompositionUnpromptedly narrating what the text or the model itself is doing, deciding, planning, or about to do, instead of just doing it and producing the output. The reader gets a voiceover of the writing's own moves and the model's deliberation. Literal chain-of-thought residue that has no place in the final output, serving solely to pollute and bloat the content.
Examples
“What that changes in the design is smaller than it might appear, and what it changes is worth being precise about.”
“I want to be exact about my own role here.”
“I should be clear that none of this fell on me.”
“We said we were checking whether the URL could be verified using an external API, and that if it could, it would be our recommendation... That check has come back negative. Therefore...”
Tags
narrationself-referencedeliberationcot-residuemeta