Chain of Thought Prompting

The "chain of thought" superpower: breaking a problem down into a series of intermediate steps. And how to save $54,000 along the way.

Before we begin: I recently came across a job ad for “prompt engineer”, with a proposed salary range of $280K - $375K. Don’t take my word for it, have a look. A third of a million annual salary for a job that barely existed half a year ago - what a time we live in!

In this post, we're going to dig deeper into the concept of asking large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to break a problem into a series of steps. This principle is known as "chain of thought" prompting, and it's crucial to get the most out of these models.