Chain-of-thought — reasoning out loud buys accuracy and tokens
Prompting a model to reason step by step raises accuracy on multi-step problems, at the cost of latency and tokens — and the written reasoning is a rationalization, not a faithful trace of the computation.
Not yet scoped.
Why
The PoC compares direct and chain-of-thought answers on a reasoning benchmark and the token/accuracy tradeoff, cautioning that the trace explains less than it appears to.
How it works
Not yet built.
Where it lands in Jayverse
Auditor: never accept a model's chain-of-thought as the audit trail. For any LLM-assisted decision such as a market-resolution suggestion, the Auditor needs a separate, checkable methodology, since the PoC's own finding is that the trace is a rationalization.
OFA: benchmark direct vs. chain-of-thought prompting before defaulting to CoT. If a solver ever uses an LLM to reason about routing, weigh the accuracy gain against latency and token cost, and don't rely on the trace as a debugging log.
Key expressions
Words and phrases from this page worth keeping, with the Korean meaning and the sentence they come from.
Expression
뜻 · 쓰이는 자리
reasoning out loud
생각을 소리 내어(겉으로 풀어서) 전개하는 것 · "reasoning out loud buys accuracy and tokens"
buy X (at a cost)
대가를 치르고 ~을 얻어내다 · "buys accuracy and tokens"
step by step
단계별로 하나씩 · "reason step by step"
at the cost of
~을 대가로, 희생하여 · "at the cost of latency and tokens"
faithful trace
있는 그대로를 충실히 담은 기록 · "not a faithful trace of the computation"