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Google’s Gemini transparency cut leaves enterprise developers ‘debugging blind’
Why is Google hiding Gemini's reasoning traces? The decision sparks a debate over black-box models versus the need for transparency.
Google ‘s recent decision to hide the raw reasoning tokens of its flagship model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, has sparked a fierce backlash from developers who have been relying on that transparency to build and debug applications. As one user on the Google forum said, “I can’t accurately diagnose any issues if I can’t see the raw chain of thought like we used to.” Another described being forced to “guess” why the model failed, leading to “incredibly frustrating, repetitive loops trying to fix things.” “I hear that you all want raw thoughts, the value is clear, there are use cases that require them,” Kilpatrick wrote, adding that bringing the feature back to the developer-focused AI Studio is “something we can explore.”
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