Chain-of-Thought: Teaching AI to Reason Out Loud

AI in Practice, No Fluff — Day 2/10 When I had just started using ChatGPT, I asked it to calculate how many business days were between two dates. It gave me a confident number. The number was very wrong... I only caught it because I had already done the count by hand and was just double-checking. I asked the exact same question again, added four words at the end of the prompt, "Let's think step by step," and watched it walk through the weekends, subtract a holiday, and then land on the correct n