alt Hacker NewsCoT is far older than DeepSeek.
I remember adding it to GPT-3.0 and getting a big boost in accuracy. It was like magic.
And then we would handcraft thoughts and inject that into the prompt so the model thinks its owns thoughts and would follow instructions much more precisely.
This was well before reasoning models, even before chat models.
I wasn't suggesting they invented it. I was suggesting that they popularized it, made a huge amount of noise about it, and it seemed like after they did, there was a lot more attention on it.