Comment by therealdrag0

We’re years into the industry leaning into “chain of thought” and then “thinking models” that are based on this premise, forcing more token usage to avoid premature conclusions and notice contradictions (I sometimes see this leak into final output). You may remember in the early days users themselves would have to say “think deeply” or after a response “now check your work” and it would find its own “one shot” mistakes often.

So it must be studied and at least be proven effective in practice to be so universally used now.

Someone else posted a few articles like this in the thread above but there’s probably more and better ones if you search. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647907