Twelve claims that circulate on social media, in slide decks, and in casual conversation about o1, R1, Claude-thinking, and Gemini Deep Think — paired with what the literature actually says. Click any card to flip.
Source essay: common-misconceptions.md · Suggest a 13th: open an issue
Pedantry has a purpose here. Each correction changes a downstream decision: how you audit a deployed reasoner (myth #1, #7), how you allocate inference compute (#2), what you cite as state of the art (#11), which algorithm you reach for (#9). The misconceptions aren't just inaccurate — they're load-bearing for choices that get made.