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Chain of Thought For Humans

L3 · BuilderTutorials & GuidesLessWrong AI· 10/18/2026

Helps builders improve their interview performance and communication skills using AI-inspired techniques.

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Explains how prompting techniques from AI can improve human problem-solving and communication in technical interviews.

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These past few weeks, I’ve been conducting interviews, and I often open with “make sure you articulate your thoughts out loud, so I can follow along with your thinking”. This is primarily because I’m not a mind reader, but it does also help ensure candidates avoid freezing up. It’s a very “interviewy” skill though - artificial and unlike real development. The other thing I’ve been doing is playing The Witness, a 2016 puzzle game centred around solving mazes with increasingly complicated hidden r

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