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depthfrontier

confirmedPython · CPUModel behavior & reasoningJuly 6, 2026

the question

How many trivial single-digit additions can a small model chain before losing track?

what came out

A working-memory limit -- both models fail past 3-4 terms. CoT rescues the capable model almost completely (frontier 4->16) but barely the weak one. Self-generated exact ground truth.

method & receipts

  • Result: confirmed
  • Reproducible one script re-runs the whole thing from scratch.
  • Independently reviewed an adversarial review pass, kept in the repo.
  • Machine-readable claims every reported number, in a checkable file.
  • Tested — a correctness/benchmark suite ships alongside the code.

→ read the code and re-run it

github.com/v-code01/depthfrontier