The Planning Illusion

We're teaching AI to plan like humans. That might be the most expensive mistake in AI history. The dominant agent frameworks of 2025 — ReAct, Chain-of-Thought, Plan-and-Execute — all share one topology: hierarchical decomposition from goal to sub-goals to atomic actions. It is the topology of human deliberate problem-solving, and it was deliberately chosen to make AI systems legible, interpretable, and controllable by humans. But legibility for humans and optimality for AI are two very different...

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