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Jun 9, 2026 3:27:52 PM

What is chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting?

By dotsquares 1 minute read

CoT prompting asks the model to reason step-by-step before giving its final answer. Adding ‘Let’s think step by step’ or providing worked-example reasoning in few-shot demonstrations significantly improves performance on multi-step maths, logic, and coding tasks.

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