First, why "think step by step" fails. It tells the model to think. It doesn't tell the model how to think. You get surface-level reasoning dressed up as depth. Confident-sounding outputs with zero structural logic underneath.
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First, why "think step by step" fails. It tells the model to think. It doesn't tell the model how to think. You get surface-level reasoning dressed up as depth. Confident-sounding outputs with zero structural logic underneath.