Comment by otabdeveloper4

2 months ago

> it does influence its final output

We don't really know that. So far CoT is only used to sell LLMs to the user. (Both figuratively as a neat trick and literally as a way to increase token count.)

Not even remotely true. It's part of the context window, so it greatly influences the final output. CoT is tokens generated by the LLM just like normal output.