Why Does AI Feel Smarter Lately? Reasoning Models and the Rough Sheet
Hint: it’s just board exams. Models don’t learn from your chats; reasoning models just do rough work before the final answer.
Concept-Breakdown
What Makes an AI Agent Feel Autonomous? The Agent Loop
Hint: it’s just Mom’s cooking. Plan, act, observe, repeat: the loop that makes an ordinary model feel like an agent.
How Does an Agent Remember? Context Window vs Memory
Hint: it’s just a WhatsApp scroll. Why an AI forgets yesterday’s chat, and how real memory works: a notebook it reads next time.
What Turns an LLM into an Agent: The Tool Call
Hint: it’s just a waiter. How a tool call lets an LLM check the real world before it answers, the first step to an agent.
How LLMs Think
Hint: it’s just Antakshari. How a large language model writes an answer, one token at a time.