Prompt Tip of the Day

Prompt Tip of the Day

Prompt Tip of the Day

Here's an easy trick to reduce your ChatGPT (or other) expenses: Chain-of-Draft prompting.

Chain of Draft (CoD) addresses these issues by suggesting a more efficient approach for LLM reasoning. Inspired by human problem-solving habits, where we usually jot down only the essential details, CoD demonstrates that effective reasoning doesn't require lengthy explanations.

^{*1Xu, S., Xie, W., Zhao, L., & He, P. (2025). Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less.}

Instruct your AI to think step-by-step, but limit each reasoning step to a maximum of 5 words.

Instead of: “First, I need to subtract 12 from 20 to find the difference, which represents how many lollipops Jason gave away...”

You get: “20 - 12 = 8 #### Final Answer: 8”

Same accuracy, far fewer tokens. Just add “keep reasoning steps under 5 words” to your prompts and use “####” before final answers.

We’re not entirely sure if OpenAI’s recent math solver used the chain of draft, but the way its reasoning appeared reminded us of this technique.

The idea is to make the AI mimic how you (a human) solve problems—quick mental notes, not essays. Your AI bill will appreciate it.

Delights to Discover.

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3.         OpenReasoning-Nemotron is NVIDIA’s open-source reasoning model capable of solving complex math problems, writing code, and answering science questions by processing each step (available in 1.5B/7B/14B/32B versions)—free to use.

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