“Let’s think step by step” was indeed a joke/on purpose. Everything else was just my stream of consciousness… my “chain of thought” shall we say. I more or less wrote down thoughts as they came to me. Perhaps I’ve been influenced by reading LLM CoT’s, though I haven’t done very much of that. Or perhaps this is just what thinking looks like when you write it down?
I’ve spent enough time staring at LLM chain-of-thoughts now that when I started thinking about a thing for work, I found my thoughts taking the shape of an LLM thinking about how to approach its problem. And that actually felt like a useful systematic way of approaching the problem, so I started writing out that chain of thought like I was an LLM, and that felt valuable in helping me stay focused.
Of course, I had to amuse myself by starting the chain-of-thought with “The user has asked me to...”
I assume “let’s think step by step” is a joke/on purpose. The “first” and “not so fast” on their own don’t seem that egregious to me.
“Let’s think step by step” was indeed a joke/on purpose. Everything else was just my stream of consciousness… my “chain of thought” shall we say. I more or less wrote down thoughts as they came to me. Perhaps I’ve been influenced by reading LLM CoT’s, though I haven’t done very much of that. Or perhaps this is just what thinking looks like when you write it down?
I’ve spent enough time staring at LLM chain-of-thoughts now that when I started thinking about a thing for work, I found my thoughts taking the shape of an LLM thinking about how to approach its problem. And that actually felt like a useful systematic way of approaching the problem, so I started writing out that chain of thought like I was an LLM, and that felt valuable in helping me stay focused.
Of course, I had to amuse myself by starting the chain-of-thought with “The user has asked me to...”