Reasoning Routing Verification
The chapters in this module, in reading order.
| # |
Chapter |
| 00 |
Reasoning Models — The Five-Year-Old Version |
| 01 |
Opening Failure — Fluent answers can still lose the plot |
| 02 |
Chain-of-Thought Prompting — Asking for steps is the cheapest reasoning upgrade |
| 03 |
Why CoT Works — Intermediate state is the real superpower |
| 04 |
Reasoning Model Architectures — From prompt tricks to RL-trained deliberation |
| 05 |
Hidden Chain-of-Thought — The model thinks more than it shows, and you pay for both |
| 06 |
DeepSeek-R1 and the Open Ecosystem — Reasoning became reproducible and self-hostable |
| 07 |
Test-time Compute Scaling — Spending inference tokens to buy better answers |
| 08 |
Search, Verification, and the Move Tree — Generate options, score them, prune ruthlessly |
| 09 |
Task Routing Patterns — Do not pay grandmaster prices for calculator work |
| 10 |
Cost, Quality, and Latency Tradeoffs — The frontier you must defend in numbers |
| 11 |
Evaluating Reasoning — Benchmarks lie, traces fool you, build your own golden set |
| 12 |
Production Reasoning Systems — Pipelines, fallbacks, and operational discipline |
| 13 |
Honest Admission — What we still do not understand about reasoning models |