Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social): The sudden collapse of the value of Chain-of-Thought (even summarized CoT) in the agentic era changes working with AI. Effectively steering AIs and getting any sort of observability now requires you
Critical insight for builders using AI agents about evolving prompt engineering strategies and debugging techniques.
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Ethan Mollick argues that Chain-of-Thought prompting has lost effectiveness in the agentic AI era, requiring new approaches like requesting interim outputs and AI-assisted troubleshooting.
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The sudden collapse of the value of Chain-of-Thought (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.
