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The Declining Value of CoT Changes How People Work With AI Agents
- Who
- Ethan Mollick
- What
- argues that the declining value of chain-of-thought in the agentic era requires interim outputs, tests, and AI-assisted troubleshooting for steering and observability
What happened
The sudden collapse of the value of CoT (even summarized CoT) in the agentic era changes working with AI. Effectively steering AIs and getting any sort of observability now requires you to ask for interim outputs & tests, and to use AI help to troubleshoot problems you find.
The story so far
Ethan Mollick argued that chain-of-thought, including summarized chain-of-thought, has sharply declined in value in the agentic era, changing how people need to steer and monitor AI agents. He said effective oversight now requires asking agents for interim outputs and tests, then using AI assistance to troubleshoot problems those checks reveal.
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