Hierarchical Planning

Teach Me Once, Then Please Stop Calling the API A familiar enterprise automation story starts with a competent but expensive expert in the loop. At first, the expert is useful. They interpret messy instructions, break tasks into sensible stages, and recover when something goes wrong. Then the workflow scales. Suddenly the expert is being called for every transaction, every exception, every tiny decision that could probably have been handled by a trained local process. What began as intelligence becomes latency, cost, and operational dependency. Very elegant. Very billable. Not always very deployable. ...