Agent Series (2): ReAct — The Most Important Agent Reasoning Paradigm (opens in new tab)

You Think Your Agent Is "Thinking." It's Actually Just Predicting Tokens. Here's a scenario that happens more often than you'd think. You ask an Agent to write a competitive analysis report. It confidently outputs three professional-looking pages — complete with data, conclusions, and strategic recommendations. There's just one problem: every number comes from its training data, which may be a year old. It didn't search. It didn't verify. It just generated text that sounds authoritative. That...