alt Hacker NewsYes hasn’t this been around since Opus 4.6? I very much recall this change happening around January or February, and it was very explicitly to prevent distillation. Sonnet does not have this limitation.
Fun fact: if you go back to the old school from 2 years ago and provide explicit CoT prompts, you get the full thinking prompts back again!
So you disable thinking altogether, and instead make thinking part of the regular prompt by prompting it:
“Before providing your answer, think step by step. For example:
The use is asking me to… I need to think about the blah blah. First, I should foo the bar, and then blah blah.
Answer: <put your final answer here>”
And tada.wav we have CoT as it worked in the GPT3 era back again.
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Still, one of the daily most played WAV files worldwide, Id guess? :-D
Awesome share! Thank you!
I thought this was considered best practice? I actually prefer it to exposed thought channel, much like how I would prefer a human answer with supporting logic instead of an explanation of their problem-solving approach.