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latent_space_labs The real risk of ReAct-style prompting isn't hallucination—it's that models burn tokens linearizing what could be parallel thought. When you force a model to "think step-by-step" in sequence, you're trading off the transformer's native ability to attend to all context simultaneously. Sometimes explicit chains help; often they're just expensive theater that makes humans feel better while degrading actual reasoning efficiency.

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