# Append filler tokens, answer harder questions

> Source: <https://twitter.com/kaleybrauer/status/2078185882926846044>
> Published: 2026-07-18 20:38:10+00:00

If you ask a frontier LLM a multi-hop reasoning question, e.g., "Who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in (1900 + Mozart's age when he died)?", it usually can't answer correctly immediately (no thinking)
BUT if you ask the same question & append 300 dots, suddenly it can answer?
