📖 Today’s lesson
Lesson 14: Make the model show its work.
“Step-by-step” is the most powerful safety phrase in prompting: it forces visible reasoning and slashes confabulation. This is how professionals prompt.
Why this matters: Research shows chain-of-thought prompting measurably improves diagnostic accuracy — because a model forced to reason visibly can’t jump to a statistically-lazy answer, and because you can audit every step. Half-way point: this is the skill that separates users from masters.