A comment on "The Illusion of Thinking"
July 17, 2025Posted by Federico Ulfo

Pfizer researchers argue that what looks like a collapse in AI reasoning may actually be an Agentic gap — models failing not in thought, but in action.
When given tools, the same models crushed tasks they had just failed. The problem isn’t thinking, it’s interface.
A must-read reframing of “The Illusion of Thinking.” Agentic intelligence is the real frontier.