Working Notes on Agent Systems/Brad Zhang

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I think the really interesting part of this paper is here: the complexity of the Agent begins to slowly change.

I think the really interesting part of this paper is here: the complexity of the Agent begins to slowly change. In the past, everyone paid more attention to: what is generated....

May 25, 2026 · 1 min read

I think the really interesting part of this paper is here: the complexity of the Agent begins to slowly change.
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I think the really interesting part of this paper is here: the complexity of the Agent begins to slowly change.

In the past, everyone paid more attention to: what is generated.

Now many questions are beginning to become: How to explore more possibilities.

How to do trial and error at low cost.

How to quickly return to a certain past state.

In a sense, many agents have become more and more like search systems running in state space.

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