[CSMastermind]

Everything about LLMs is inefficient. They have their benefits but watching them reason over things that are painfully obvious, that they've literally investigated before (before a memory compaction), never take a step back aand be like 'this is going too slow let me look for a better way', etc. is painful.

[ifwinterco]

It’s got worse though right? Older models from before everyone went off the deep end with CoT don’t do this and just write the code with 1/10 the token usage.

The downside is the code isn’t as good but it is produced a lot faster and more cheaply and often it’s actually fine.

CoT has made LLMs better (say 50% improvement or something) but increases cost by an order of magnitude. That graph is going in the wrong direction and has been for a while now

[NuclearPM]

CoT?

[NatKarmios]

Chain of Thought, according to a quick search