Abstraction With A Valid Reason

So Ramanujan, the legendary mathematician who basically downloaded theorems directly from the universe, famously didn't show his work because he claimed he got his formulas from dreams and divine inspiration. Hardy would constantly be like "dude, just show me the proof" and Ramanujan would be like "trust me bro, the goddess told me."

Now imagine if he was a modern developer: "Sorry Hardy, can't expose my reasoning tokens via the API." Translation: the internal thought process of the LLM is hidden from you, peasant. You get the output, not the chain-of-thought that led to it. It's abstraction with actual security justification—can't have people reverse-engineering the secret sauce or manipulating the model's internal reasoning.

Basically, both are saying "I have my reasons, you wouldn't understand them anyway, just accept the answer." Except one was channeling mathematical deities and the other is protecting proprietary AI infrastructure. Same energy though.