Pre-CoT era: a researcher recalls manually prompting models to reason first

gandamu_ml · x · 2026-09-28

gandamuml recalls that before CoT existed, he would deliberately have models output reasoning beneficial to the context before the final answer — essentially manual CoT, without models being trained for it. A first-hand anecdote on the early form of what became test-time compute.

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