Thinking Fast and Flowing Slow: Real-Time Reasoning for Autonomous Agents
Delay is not a footnote in automation. It is the product. A customer support agent that takes thirty seconds to decide whether to escalate has already shaped the customer’s mood. A warehouse robot that produces the correct plan after the pallet has moved has produced something closer to poetry than control. A trading assistant that generates a gorgeous hedge after the market has repriced is not sophisticated. It is late, which is the expensive version of wrong. ...