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by chunpaiyang 71 days ago
I'm a software engineer building an app as a side project. I quickly realized AI bullshits a lot.

But you know, engineers bullshit each other all the time too. The difference is we have a way to verify it - logical chains. You have to build an argument that holds up before anayone buys in it.

So I though, can I make AI build its own logical chain ? Let it pass its own logic check before telling me the result.

That's how I created my own "think" skill. It's based on Meta's CoT paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04682

It roughly works like this: 1. FRAME - Challenge the question itself, hidden assumptions.

2. GROUND - Map what you know, what you need, what's missing.

3. ASSOCIATE - Launch multiple independent agents in parallel to generate hypotheses, avoid anchoring bias.

4. VERIFY - Break each hypothesis into atomic claims, verify each independently

5. CHAIN - Build a logical chain from survivors

6. PROVE and LOOP - Walk backwards from conclusion to premises, seearch for evidence, repair if broken

7. DELIVER - Start with "I was wrong if ...."

It helps me a lot. Whenever I need to check if Claude Opus 4.6 is bullshitting me. I just say "/think verify the above reasoning is correct" or "/think verify the above fix is correct and complete."