Poster surprised that v4.1 flash gets more accurate when asked to control its CoT

dfrsrchtwts · x · 2026-10-27

Follow-up in the CoT controllability thread: the poster notes a counterintuitive result where v4.1 flash becomes more accurate when asked to control its chain-of-thought, contrary to expectations that CoT constraints hurt task performance. Details would require the full 87-page report.

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