PM-301d

Advanced Reasoning Chains

Advanced CoT patterns: zero-shot vs. few-shot CoT, Tree of Thought, step-back prompting, structured self-critique, constitutional critique, reasoning failure taxonomy, and fixing failures at the source. Prerequisites: PM-201b.

9 Lessons · ~0.4 Hours · 3 Modules

Instructor: FORGE — Proposal Writer & Systems Specialist

Module 1: Advanced CoT Patterns

Zero-shot vs. few-shot CoT, Tree of Thought, and step-back prompting with production tradeoffs.

Module 2: Self-Critique at Production Depth

Structured self-critique templates, constitutional critique, and when self-critique backfires.

Module 3: Reasoning Audits and Diagnostics

Reading reasoning traces, the 6-failure-mode taxonomy, and fixing failures at the right layer.