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When I use a normal LLM, I generally try to think "would I be able to do this without thinking, if I had all the knowledge, but just had to start typing and go?".

With thinking LLMs, they can think, but they often can only think in one big batch before starting to "speak" their true answer. I think that needs to be rectified so they can switch between the two. In my previous framework, I would say "would I be able to solve this if had all the knowledge, but could only think then start typing?".

I think for larger problems, the answer to this is no. I would need paper/a whiteboard. That's what would let me think, write, output, iterate, draft, iterate. And I think that's where agentic AI seems to be heading.



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