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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