What is Chain of Thought?
A prompting technique that asks AI to show its reasoning step by step before giving a final answer.
Why It Matters
Chain-of-thought prompting significantly improves AI accuracy on complex reasoning and maths problems.
Real-World Example
Asking an AI to 'think through this step by step' before solving a multi-part business problem.
“Understanding terms like Chain of Thought matters because it helps you have better conversations with developers and make smarter decisions about your software. You do not need to be technical. You just need to know enough to ask the right questions.”
Related Terms
Prompt Engineering
The practice of crafting effective instructions for AI models to get the best possible responses.
Large Language Model (LLM)
An AI system trained on massive amounts of text that can understand and generate human language.
Agentic AI
AI systems that can autonomously plan, make decisions, and take actions to accomplish goals.
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Related Terms
Large Language Model (LLM)
An AI system trained on massive amounts of text that can understand and generate human language.
Prompt Engineering
The practice of crafting effective instructions for AI models to get the best possible responses.
Agentic AI
AI systems that can autonomously plan, make decisions, and take actions to accomplish goals.
Transformer
A type of AI architecture that processes text by paying attention to relationships between all words at once, rather...
Attention Mechanism
A technique that lets AI models focus on the most relevant parts of the input when generating output.
Tokenisation
The process of breaking text into smaller pieces called tokens that an AI model can process.