The watermarking is going to get rolled back or Anthropic is going to get rolled. People hate it and it makes the writing worse.
replyNah no one will notice. Gemini already does this and openai will soon do this as well.
replyOh man. Hadn't even considered the watermarking angle.
replyThe simpler angle is that more text lets them bill you more. I don't think that was necessarily their intent, but it does mean they have a negative incentive to fix it.
replyI would have assumed reasoning tokens dramatically outweigh user-visible output. It certainly seemed that way when they were visible!
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