Did you try the universal LLM cheat code as a followup prompt?
"Make it better"
These "thinking" LLMs are essentially productizing that trick. All the rambling and second guessing they go through at the beginning gives them source material to compute the "better" answer from at the end.
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These "thinking" LLMs are essentially productizing that trick. All the rambling and second guessing they go through at the beginning gives them source material to compute the "better" answer from at the end.