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pith:2025:3YYKFB5OIUVKJ3HWQTYWLX7KFS

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Prompting Science Report 2: The Decreasing Value of Chain of Thought in Prompting

Dan Shapiro, Ethan Mollick, Lennart Meincke, Lilach Mollick

arxiv:2506.07142 v1 · 2025-06-08 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:18:02.381959Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

de30a287ae452aa4ecf684f165dfea2ca750a70bdef5bfad63bfc2b5e9d40fff

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arxiv: 2506.07142 · arxiv_version: 2506.07142v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.07142 · pith_short_12: 3YYKFB5OIUVK · pith_short_16: 3YYKFB5OIUVKJ3HW · pith_short_8: 3YYKFB5O

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3YYKFB5OIUVKJ3HWQTYWLX7KFS \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: de30a287ae452aa4ecf684f165dfea2ca750a70bdef5bfad63bfc2b5e9d40fff

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
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    "submitted_at": "2025-06-08T13:41:25Z",
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