Agentic Thinking
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What I worked on
Explored how agentic workflows relate to tree-of-thought and chain-of-thought prompting. Tried to trace the lineage of reasoning systems from CoT to ToT and RL.
What I noticed
- ToT resembles beam search but with reasoning branches
- CoT and ToT are linked to recursive search and planning
- Reinforcement learning can implement ToT-like exploration
- Recursive problem solving traces back decades
”Aha” Moment
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What still feels messy
Where agentic systems actually diverge from classical RL approaches.
Next step
Map ToT reasoning patterns against beam search and Monte Carlo methods.