Chain Of Thought prompting loses much of its effectiveness on newer reasoning models like GPT “o” series and Claude Sonnet. As an exercise for the reader, I en

Chain Of Thought prompting loses much of its effectiveness on newer reasoning models like GPT “o” series and Claude Sonnet. As an exercise for the reader, I encourage you all to try the examples vs. control prompts in prompt engineering papers for chain of thought prompting, and you’ll see that the latest models have either been trained to or instructed to reason by default now - the outputs are close enough to equivalent. CoT prompting was probably much more effective a few years ago on older, less powerful models. You may find some benefit in telling it exactly how you want it to reason about a problem, but note that you may actually be limiting its capabilities that way. I’ve found that most of the time, I will let it use its default reasoning capabilities and guide those rather than supplying my own.