This new, dead simple prompt technique boosts accuracy on LLMs by up to 76% on non-reasoning tasks
Carl Franzen January 13, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with Seedream v4.5 on fal.aiIn the chaotic world of Large Language Model (LLM) optimization, engineers have spent the last few years developing increasingly esoteric rituals to get better answers. We’ve seen “Chain of Thought” (asking the model to think step-by-step and often, show those “reasoning traces” to the user), “Emotional Blackmail” (telling the model its career depends on the answer, or that it is being accused of sexual misconduct), and complex multi-shot prompting frameworks.But a new paper released by Google Research suggests that we may have been overthinking it. The researchers found that simply repeating the input query—literally copying and pasting the prompt so it appears twice—consistently improves…
