The Difference between Chain-of-Thought and Chaining
Debugging a mega-prompt is like untangling Christmas lights in the dark.
AI is a pattern engine. If you ask it to do five things at once, it will try, but it will guess what your priorities are and fill the gaps with its own defaults.
Step-by-step prompting removes that guesswork. It gives you:
Clear scope: You decide what the model should do now versus wh…
