Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself

CoRT (Chain of Recursive Thoughts) 🧠🔄 TL;DR: I made my AI think harder by making it argue with itself repeatedly. It works stupidly well. What is this? CoRT makes AI models recursively think about their responses, generate alternatives, and pick the best one. It's like giving the AI the ability to doubt itself and try again... and again... and again. Does it actually work? YES. I tested it with Mistral 3.1 24B and it went from "meh" to "holy crap", especially for such a small model, at programming tasks. How it works AI generates initial response AI decides how many "thinking rounds" it needs For each round: Generates 3 alternative responses Evaluates all responses Picks the best one Final response is the survivor of this AI battle royale Examples Mistral 3.1 24B non CoRT Mistral 3.1 24B + CoRT Try it yourself pip install - r requirements . txt export OPENROUTER_API_KEY = "your-key-here" python recursive - thinking - ai . py The Secret Sauce The magic is in: Self-evalu ... Read full article.