Ethan Mollick: CoT's value collapses in the agentic era, steer via interim outputs
emollick · x · 2026-10-15
Ethan Mollick argues that the sudden collapse of CoT's value (even summarized CoT) in the agentic era changes how we work with AI: to steer models and get observability, you now need to explicitly request interim outputs and tests, and use AI itself to troubleshoot issues you uncover.
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