SMRTR AIJul 20, 2026GitConnected

Repeating “Let Me Think” 200 Times Makes an LLM More Accurate

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Repeating "let me think" hundreds of times before answering actually improves an AI model's accuracy on factual questions. The repetitive filler tokens seem to act as a mental warm-up, helping the model trace through stored knowledge step-by-step to retrieve correct answers it would otherwise confidently get wrong.

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