Chain-of-Thought Prompting: How It Works, When to Use It, and Advanced Variants
What Is Chain-of-Thought Prompting? Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting is a technique that instructs a language model to show its reasoning step by step before producing a final answer. Rather than jumping directly to a conclusion, the model works through the problem explicitly — identifying relevant information, applying logic, considering intermediate results — and only then commits … Read more