[Linkpost] “Chain of Thought For Humans” by Adam Newgas

LessWrong (30+ Karma) · Oct 19, 2026 · 3m

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These past few weeks, I’ve been conducting interviews, and I often open with “make sure you articulate your thoughts out loud, so I can follow along with your thinking”. This is primarily because I’m not a mind reader, but it does also help ensure candidates avoid freezing up. It's a very “interviewy” skill though - artificial and unlike real development.

The other thing I’ve been doing is playing The Witness, a 2016 puzzle game centred around solving mazes with increasingly complicated hidden rules. The game has a unexciting presentation, no music or interesting dialog…