The Illusion of Thinking, and the Rebuttal That Followed

Apple researchers ran a careful experiment on whether reasoning models reason, found accuracy collapsing to zero past a complexity threshold, and the result travelled fast. Then a response appeared that disputed none of the data and argued the experiment measured something else: models were being asked to print answers longer than their output limits, some puzzles had no solution at all, and asking for a program instead of a move list restored accuracy on the same instances. This short path follows both, and ends with the rules for measuring anything.