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title: "Discussion on \"Few-Shot and Chain-of-Thought, When They Earn Their Tokens\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"Few-Shot and Chain-of-Thought, When They Earn Their Tokens\". Few-shot and CoT are the two most over-applied prompting techniques of the last three years. Here is when each one pays for itself, when it does not, and how to tell the difference before you ship."
url: "https://hashnode.com/posts/few-shot-chain-of-thought-tokens/69dc3d2715d49c020a921dbb"
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# [Few-Shot and Chain-of-Thought, When They Earn Their Tokens](https://ai-zero-to-hero.hashnode.dev/few-shot-chain-of-thought-tokens?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Few-shot and CoT are the two most over-applied prompting techniques of the last three years. Here is when each one pays for itself, when it does not, and how to tell the difference before you ship.

Apr 13 · 11 min read · ai-zero-to-hero.hashnode.dev  
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-   [#developers](https://hashnode.com/tag/developers)
-   [#few-shot](https://hashnode.com/tag/few-shot)
-   [#llm](https://hashnode.com/tag/llm)
-   [#prompts](https://hashnode.com/tag/prompts)

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