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Agent Plans Are Post-Hoc Rationalizations, Not Real Plans

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Most ReAct-style agents generate plans after actions are implicitly chosen, not before, making plans mere rationalizations. This causes retry storms, goal substitution, and false progress reports. The fix is architectural: separate versioned plan state from justification text and diff them each loop.

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This diagnosis reframes common agent failures as structural flaws, not prompt issues, pushing for more robust agent design.
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