The answer
No. An explanation can contain invalid assumptions or calculations. Treat it as material to inspect, and verify its claims with appropriate mathematical or factual checks.
What is chain-of-thought prompting?
Should a generated explanation be treated as proof?
More FAQs in What is chain-of-thought prompting?
No. Its effectiveness depends on the model, task, prompt examples, and evaluation conditions. Some reasoning models already perform intermediate computation without explicit step-by-step instructions.
A worked example in a prompt changes the context for that request. Fine-tuning uses a training procedure to modify model parameters across examples.
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