Chain-of-Thought Reasoning May Be a Mistake
December 31, 2025

Archived from an original LinkedIn post by Brian Greenforest.

Original Post

Chain-of-thoughts reasoning model architecture is a mistake. It does improve results. It does put you on leaderboards, but have you ever asked yourself, "Why some single-shots sometimes are so surprisingly capable to outperfrom an hour of a complicated chain-of-thoughts 'reasoning' by that much of an unexplained latent cognitive capacity"? Have you? I wonder if it's the same with people too, when we over-think ourselves into some kind of Gödelian entropy decay?.. 🤷‍♂️💡🧠
#GPT #LLM #airesearch #overthinking