antirez: Models Without CoT Training Still Benefit From Reasoning Prompts

antirez · x · 2026-08-07

Prominent open-source developer antirez shared his thoughts on the history of LLMs, highlighting a telling result. He pointed out that models which received no specific training to generate a chain of thought still perform better when simply asked to think about problems before answering. He considers this one of the most revealing outcomes in LLM history.

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