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.
Large Language Models
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.
When two AIs grade each other, they can agree their way into wrong answers
Two copies of one model that write and grade each other’s questions can look healthy while agreeing on more wrong answers.
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.