Your model's reasoning trace is not an audit log
Wednesday AI Opinion. Here's my hot take: a reasoning model's chain of thought is a useful debugging signal, but it is not an audit log. If your product, review process or compliance story treats "the model explained its reasoning" as proof of why it did something, you are trusting a narrative, not evidence. I see this pattern more and more. An agent writes "I checked the tests and they pass" in its thinking, and the reviewer approves. A classifier explains why it flagged a ticket, and the expla
🎯 Vulnerability: Web Security Vulnerability
💡 Defense Fix: Implement strict input validation, contextual output encoding, and enforce least-privilege authorization controls.