All the LLM is doing is generating text. Forcing it to describe a step-by-step reasoning process is the only way to get it to work through one. And the whole po

All the LLM is doing is generating text. Forcing it to describe a step-by-step reasoning process is the only way to get it to work through one. And the whole point of using this as a prompting strategy is that it often gets you something different and better than what you might call the "first guess" it gives you if you don't ask for intermediate results.