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Overhyped ideas in machine learning

Have you encountered an idea that's overhyped in ML? If so, which? For me, recently I was curious about the whole "chain of thought prompting" business. I searched around and the idea is essentially, append "show your work" when prompting a LLM. I was like no way that's it??? That's what I've been…

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  1. 2026-10-09 04:17 · r/learnmachinelearning
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