AI / Agentic AI Interview Questions
Define Chain-of-Thought reasoning?
Chain-of-Thought reasoning is a prompting technique where a model is encouraged to write out intermediate reasoning steps before arriving at a final answer, rather than jumping directly to a conclusion.
- Breaks a complex problem into smaller, more manageable reasoning steps
- Makes a model's reasoning process visible and easier to debug
- Forms the reasoning backbone that patterns like ReAct build on top of, by pairing each reasoning step with an actual tool call
On its own, Chain-of-Thought is purely about reasoning in text, it doesn't take real actions, which is the key difference between it and an agentic pattern like ReAct.
What does Chain-of-Thought encourage a model to do?
Does Chain-of-Thought alone take real-world actions?
More Related questions...
