The Reasoning Illusion: Why Today's AI Agents Still Can't Plan

Benchmarks look impressive and demos go viral, but strip away the scaffolding and most "agentic" systems collapse the moment they face real uncertainty. The gap between faking reasoning and actually thinking is still massive.
The Reasoning Illusion: Why Today's AI Agents Still Can't Plan

The AI world is high on its own supply again. Every other week we see a new “agent” framework drop that promises to automate away entire job categories. The demos are slick. The tweets are triumphant. The VCs are opening their wallets.

But spend ten minutes actually using one in a non-toy environment and the illusion shatters.

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