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LLM Reasoning & Test-Time Compute

How modern LLMs perform multi-step reasoning and why test-time compute changes the capability ceiling

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Understand why single-pass generation fails on complex tasks
  • Explain Chain-of-Thought and its variants
  • Describe how o1/o3-style reasoning loops work
  • Know when to use reasoning models vs standard models in production
  • Calculate cost vs quality tradeoff for reasoning models

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