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Part 36 · Module 5: Reasoning and Advanced Prompting

Lesson 2: Ask several times, then vote or check

19 min read·13 Oct 2026
Module 5 · Lesson 2 · About 45 minutes · Needs: Lesson 1 of this module (the refund rule decide, the scaffold form); Module 3 Lesson 2 (temperature)

The situation

It is Tuesday 30 June 2026, week 5. Lesson 1 asked the model for one refund decision per ticket. Maya asks: "If you ask it twice, does it say the same thing?" At temperature above zero it may not. Ruth Pell writes in T-1025: "There are two charges of 144 USD on my card statement for 1 June. Is one of them a duplicate?" They are not: Ruth owns two workspaces, each charged once. A quick reading says refund.

This lesson asks several times and combines the answers, by vote or by check. T-1025 is the running example.

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